I Bought a Scale Today: All the Body Image Stuff I’ve Been Scared to Say for 25 Years

In my life, the department store has been the great emasculator. I don't consider myself an anxious person. I tend to be level-headed and independent, driven and focused to a fault, but something happens when I step into an H&M. My blood pressure begins to rise, my sweat glands open like flowers in the sun, …