" Are you really going to eat another piece of pizza?" It was at my fourteenth birthday party that I received my first 1 related comment. After that day, comments like this 2 in my head longer than they should have. I was 3 picking flaws(缺点) in my figure in the mirror.
I decided that I couldn' t eat like this in order to be 4 . It started out as just a little extra 5 every day, like running, but it quickly turned into 6 meals and working out every night before bed. As I 7 the calories, the comments started to change. Perhaps my 8 comment was " You' re so skinny."
Maybe others didn' t know it, but their comments were 9 my social construction of beauty. However, my condition slowly became worse. My caloric intake was less than that of a child and I no longer had the 10 to do the things I once enjoyed.
Everything changed when I got a call from the director at my dance studio. She 11 me that she had wanted to move me to the advanced level, 12 she noticed I was too skinny. I then realized I nearly 13 my role in The Nutcracker. I was determined that I wasn' t going to let society' s idea of beauty be the death of me.
I want to get better for real this time. Mirrors and scales(秤) have no 14 of who I am. Social constructions of beauty will always be 15 in the world that I live in but I' ve decided not to let them rule over me.