I did club swimming growing up. That's where my body image issues started. I grew up in California, in a surf town, and all the kids on the team swam, surfed, did water polo. I was the only kid on the team who didn't have six-pack abs. I felt very jealous, starting at 12 years old. My body was different; I was active, but I was always a bit chunky, even when I was 15 and swimming 4,000 yards a day. Even from a young age, I had specific ideas about how I wanted my body to look. I hear similar things from a lot of other gay men. |
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