Why I took my clothes off to be seen

Day 19 of The Seal: A 30-Day Micro-Memoir Series

I’ve never had body image issues.

It’s not because I think I’m perfect, I was just never in my body.

I wrote a book about being a child who had to find a way to survive an impossible situation. In that environment, my only refuge was my imagination, in the worlds of my own creation, so I was always in my head. It would take years to recognize the toll tha…