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Alongside my new year’s resolutions, I like to have some ins and outs to refer back to. I tried to think holistically about 2025, isolating some items or behaviours that impacted my life, both positively and negatively! My 2026 is about self-growth and progression with my writing. I want to balance being young, getting to…
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It’s the 1990s. Thinness is essential for a woman’s success in a competitive, all-encompassing, impossible industry. Models in adverts and on the runways are sporting protruding bones and tired, sunken eyes. They’re defeated and emaciated, but successful. The term “heroin chic” is coined to define this skeletal trend, since its victims are alarmingly pale, frail…
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At the peak of the A-Level season in 2024, I realised I’d somehow gone from a UK size 10, to a size 14-16, seemingly overnight. Since I was preoccupied with studying, I hadn’t really noticed the gradual but consistent weight gain. I realised this was naturally happening (I hadn’t been increasing my daily caloric intake!),…
Diary of a Happy Goth 