Body Image Beauty: Tahlia Brookins

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Body Image Beauty: Tahlia Brookins
      

Three Cheers for Tahlia Brookins, a contestant on the current season of America's Next Top Model!

As an eating disorder specialist who is familiar with literally hundreds of cases of women and men trying to starve themselves into the "perfect" body, I rarely, if ever, applaud those in the modeling industry.

However, Miss Brookins is an exception. Why? Because as a burn victim who suffered second-and-third degree burns over her body when she was 8 months old, and who endured 14 surgeries to treat her wounds, she gives new meaning to the phrase "body acceptance."




         

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