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RBI focuses on using expressive writing, design-oriented work, photography, media, research, and community input to fuel fat positive, body acceptance, discussion, and outreach. Our goal is to redefine the way we view and think about body image, size, fat, discrimination, health, fitness, wellness, mental/chronic illness, stigma, and other related topics.

We are constantly redefining our own perspectives, and therefore tend to write a lot about our personal experiences. Many followers and contributors are living with anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphic disorder, depression, and a variety of other body image disorders or mental illnesses, so please be respectful and remember that health applies differently to everyone. Any and all potentially triggering content will be prefaced with a trigger warning.

RBI supports all races, genders, classes, and sizes. We try our best to make this a safe space for everyone. If we are not doing our job or checking our privilege, we invite you to please inform us.

Some of the artwork you see here has been created by our founder or moderators, some sourced when applicable. Please be kind enough to source this blog whenever you share it's content.

We are not health professionals. Any and all advice provided on this blog is supported only by our own research, studies, and personal experiences; nothing more.

This blog is part of the Safe Space Network.

  

Here is my belly in all it’s glory. I have started to really love my curves and rolls thanks to blogs like this one!  My stretch marks and my lovely scar from where my kidney was removed. I lost my kidney in 2005 because of my rare autoimmune disease. My other kidney is doing what it can but doesn’t work at 100%. I will need a new one at some point. I wanted to share this because I never have. I talk about my illness and ask for donations for my medication fund, but I’ve never shown what my illness has done. This is my largest scar related to my disease. Thankfully my 2 heart surgeries have been noninvasive and they were able to go through the arteries in my thigh. Check out my donation website to read more of my story.

click here to read my story and to donate

wwwjessicaandnoahlivehere.tumblr.com

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