What the Kimono Taught Me About My Body

Finding contentment and comfort in how I look

Illustrations by Kaki Okumura

There was a time in my life where it was very difficult for me to feel good about the way I looked in my clothes– feeling great was something of a rare, and often brief, occurrence. It did not matter if I was overweight or if I was perfectly slender, the way I felt about my body was exactly the same. I realized that the…