Let's Talk About It: Lisa Lee in Oakland

This is a short video I recorded for Let's Talk About It, a project of NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Campaign. I never knew that talking about my body image issues so openly would help with the way I deal with this ongoing struggle, so thank you first and foremost to Hyphen magazine for allowing me to write about this personal subject (http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/magazine/issue-21-new-legacy/seeking-perfect-body­), because this is merely an extension of that story. Thanks also to Lynn Chen for reaching out to me to get me thinking about how we can use our experiences to help people who are in the exact same shoes. Check out www.thickdumplingskin.com if you're looking for a community of support when it comes to food and body image issues. Living in a society where so much emphasis is placed on your body, this is an issue that we have to prepare to continue addressing, with ourselves, our children, and maybe even our children's children. But if we start now to emphasize the love for ourselves and what we have to offer regardless of what we look like, we will win this battle!

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• let's talk about it project
• love your body
• now foundation
• now health music show

[SupertwinsdotTV]

Lisa, thanks so much for sharing your personal story. By doing so you definitely help others out there. I learned a lesson from a fellow actor I was doing a play with. We were backstage and he rubbed his stomach and said: "My belly got big, but I kinda like it. I'm gonna work out, but for now I'm going to enjoy it." That was a very small but powerful lesson: Accepting who we are no matter what. It's not easy to share such a personal story so thank you.

[thickdumplingskin]

@SupertwinsdotTV Thank you for watching and for the anecdote that you shared. :) Learning to accept ourselves entirely for who we are is an ongoing journey, and sometimes a difficult one. It's so easy to have self-doubts and question our instincts that we're awesome beings. But to have friends and loved ones along the way who see things that we may miss about ourselves definitely make things easier!

- Lisa

[angryazngirl]

@fakewowguy

More playground taunts? You're such a noob. I think I should restate my comment in case you didn't understand. If you're so ambivalent, then why do you keep replying? If fact, if you really don't care, why did you even watch this video in the first place? Why were you so compelled to leave a comment? I smell hints of projection. Do you have some confidence issues of your own? Do you wanna talk it out?

[angryazngirl]

@fakewowguy

If you really don't give a shit I don't know why you'd even bother to reply in the first place. As for everything else ("lol then kill yourself...") the answer's still no.

[angryazngirl]

@fakewowguy

Actually, I probably still wasn't clear:

You commanded us to "deal with" the fact that "nobody likes fat bitches" and I refuse. Simple yeah?

[angryazngirl]

@fakewowguy

Yeah, it's true that you suggested that we should all deal with it. It's also true that I said no. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[angryazngirl]

@fakewowguy

No.

[dannyk015]

@fakewowguy your own mother doesn't like you. deal with it.

[disgrasian]

Amazing project. These are the stories we all need to share!

[saucesaucesauce]

bravo and thank you, lisa!