{"id":4985,"date":"2025-11-15T15:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?post_type=manga&#038;p=4985"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:58:24","slug":"embrace-your-size","status":"publish","type":"manga","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/manga\/embrace-your-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace Your Size"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\">A love letter to those who dream of being fashionable but consider their weight as an obstacle, this uplifting comic essay by a plus-sized author chronicles her own journey with body positivity and learning to love herself as she is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">what a kind and wonderful manga! many of us struggle with having gained weight or being plus size despite the slow movement towards body-positivity in the states. there are times when i just really can&#8217;t stand my body and the allure of counting calories and restricting my diet calls to me.<br>the thing is, i AM on a rsstricted diet! i can&#8217;t eat oily foods or dairy without my stomach complaining, and even salty foods are difficult! i don&#8217;t have as much of a need to snack anymore either, so i am simply My Weight.<br>so the problem isn&#8217;t my weight\u2014 it&#8217;s my outlook on it. i keep thinking, &#8220;i can do this if i just lose eome weight!&#8221; but perhaps i should dress as i please in my size, and walk and run as i please.<br>i still don&#8217;t like certain fits\u2014 anything clinging makes me feel like I&#8217;m going to suffocate and such\u2014 but perhaps i should do what i want.<br>this manga reminds me of how hard it can be to remember to be confident and remember we&#8217;re the same as everyone else. it&#8217;s good. it&#8217;s good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A love letter to those who dream of being fashionable but consider their weight as an obstacle, this uplifting comic essay by a plus-sized author chronicles her own journey with body positivity and learning to love herself as she is. what a kind and wonderful manga! many of us struggle with having gained weight or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5041,"template":"","categories":[16],"genre":[688,687,278,272],"rating":[310],"series":[],"smut_stuff":[],"trigger_warning":[457,487,884],"trope":[],"class_list":["post-4985","manga","type-manga","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manga","genre-journalism","genre-memoir","genre-autobiographical","genre-nonfiction","rating-310","trigger_warning-bullying","trigger_warning-eating-disorder","trigger_warning-fatshaming"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manga\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manga"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manga"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manga\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manga\/4985\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"smut_stuff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/smut_stuff?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"trigger_warning","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trigger_warning?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}