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Body shaming births Get Young Again products

Portia Tlhalerwa
Portia Tlhalerwa

Extensive body shaming can have negative effects to the victim including low self-esteem and other issues such as eating disorders, anxiety, body image disturbance and depression.

For Portia Tlhalerwa, her friends and people close to her ridiculed her for her body shaming and it was not easy. While to some, the experience would have ended with a sad story, Tlhalerwa decided to use the experience as motivation.

The mother of two found ways to lose weight, which finally set her on the path to find her secret organic ingredients that made her lose weight and gain her confidence back. It is safe to say that became the birth of her slimming products business dubbed Get Young Again. “The Body shaming I got from friends and people close to me is the main inspiration behind Get Young Again. After all the body shaming and loss of confidence, I just sat down and thought of how I could overcome all of that.

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