We sat down with WNBA player & VOICEINSPORT mentor Satou Sabally to speak about her experience growing up with Body Image.

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Body image as a young girl can be a really fragile and sensitive topic and I just wish for every 1314 15 year old girl just to love yourself ,um your body is going to change so embrace those changes notice you know notice your breasts are changing you know notice the curves that you you're getting but don't ever think that you're not woman enough don't ever think that you're ugly don't ever think that you are not unique and yeah because every single flower is unique so you you like a flower you you will blossom into the woman you will become and you should really love yourself and I really hope you do blend out negative comments and only take the positive comments you know and if you don't get any talk to yourself in the mirror, look at yourself in the mirror, and even if you don't like something pinpoint that out and say no that is beautiful about me that is I love that about me.

I feel like I was a little late bloomer so I always thought why don't I look like the other girls um why shouldn't I wear bras already you know like that was just a question that was going on in my head and I realized once I was 20 that I kept comparing myself to 25 year olds that are you know young women and I realized that is such a false dystopia that we put on ourselves because you know see other women on social media we see all these perfect curves and I remember having cellulite with 15 and I thought like my sister pointed it out and she screamed and I was like oh my god and I was so scared and I'm like wait wait wait wait wait that is okay like it's really okay that you know your skin is not perfectly rounded like hello we're human you know in college even I I never had a six pack but I always looked at a girls with a six pack and I'm like oh I want a six pack so I would pressure myself you know to do that but your body is so unique like some people are just not prone to have a six pack like I still don't have a six pack and I'm a work class athlete okay so just comparing myself to track athletes who have a total different training can really mess with your mind but also um you know having the right nutrition like I think it's important to be just like gentle with yourself and knowing hey okay my body's changing um you know I felt a little spongy or like I would look at myself in the mirror and I felt a little I don't know I just felt off but I also just looked at the mirror and I'm like okay well this is also nice so just you know just embracing the different stages of girlhood and of womanhood and really learning how to love every single stage is really important.