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Jill 7/17/25 Jill 7/17/25

I spent over $3000 this year trying to fix myself

Okay, I have something to confess.

And honestly? It’s kind of embarrassing.

So far this year, I’ve spent over $3,000 on clothes.

Three. Thousand. Dollars.

Yikes.

the photo I almost didn’t post

If you follow me on social media, you might already know that June was Scoliosis Awareness Month.

To close it out, I wanted to post a photo of my back. And it wouldn’t have been the first time I did that.

But I realized something: even though I have posted my back before, I was still only ever posting my “good” angles. The ones where my very obvious rib hump wasn’t as obvious.

And I was kind of disappointed in myself. Because on social media, I’ve always tried to be real and honest about my disabled body. But turns out, I was still trying to curate it. Still trying to make it more acceptable.