5/30/2023 0 Comments Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones![]() To Jones, her body is normal because it is all she has ever known. ![]() It is an infinity mirror, reflecting and distorting the view of who she is as a person. This, in turn, affects how they treat her, which affects the way she sees herself, which affects how she acts, which affects how the world reacts to her. Jones is “born a ball of twisted muscle and tucked bone” with a rare condition called sacral agenesis-the bottom part of her spine is incomplete-causing consistent pain, stunting her height, and decreasing her mobility, all of which affects the way people see her. “That will be their first and only thought about you…They will not attempt a second thought.” ![]() “Some people are going to look at your body and see that something’s wrong,” her mom tells her. Peers debate the value of her life, strangers stop and stare, and doctors announced that she will never have a normal life. ![]() For Chloé Cooper Jones, author of the memoir Easy Beauty, life is an endless experience of being studied by others. In many ways, we are all defined by the people around us. I am more than labels can contain, but I am labeled. I am a checkmark on a census report, a goal on a diversity dashboard, and a notch on a bedpost. I am a woman, Asian, with average height, and average weight, with symmetrical features. ![]()
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