To not ignore their bodies as a separate entity from themselves.

Ensler herself however was guilty of this, too, as most woman are.

Read the Kama Sutra.

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Indian women are very, very curvy and voluptuous.

I think I am very beautiful.

I love my cheeks (she squeezes her cheek), my dimples, right here.

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Kumar, my husband, calls it the seed of my smile.

He gets excited and just grabs me here sometimes.

Kumar was worried when I first started at the gym.

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He said Priya, Priya, your jadhi is my personal country.

I know the contours and the landmarks.

If you were to lose your jadhi, I would be a sorry refugee.

That is not our country.

I think you only know one country- a little country, your body with a population of one.

You spend all your time fixing and renovating it.

Youre missing the rest of the world.

I forgot, Leah said, Youre American.

What kind of place is it?

Your bodies are just pictures to you.

Here, we live in our bodies, they serve us, they do our work.

Tell yourself these statements enough, and youll become confident enough to believe it.