From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.
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Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.
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