Diversity recognizes the different characteristics we all have which make us so unique – race, age, religion, sexual orientation, skill sets, personality traits while inclusion ensures that everyone is valued, respected, and exposed to equal opportunities. The #NormalizeNormalBodies campaign is a hashtag movement on social media that has created an online community and opened up important conversations. By showing transparency and relatability online, people feel more confident and comfortable with themselves and those around them. Thanks to the body-positivity movement, more women are embracing their shapes and shunning antiquated ideas about what it means to be "beautiful". Brands like Aerie have helped the cause by featuring more diverse models and vowing not to retouch them. Women like Ashley Graham and Iskra Lawrence are helping to change beauty standards by being their authentic, unfiltered selves and scoring major beauty contracts and magazine covers like Vogue in the process. It's a time when women are (finally) being encouraged to celebrate their bodies rather than change or feel ashamed of them.
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