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I am like any typical teenager.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

I've always been comfortable with my size.

I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.