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June 7, 2026 / 9:53 AM EDT
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It's that season again – the most uncovered time of the year. For some, swimsuits can be an issue, but not for Carly Anderson. The former elementary schoolteacher is now an online influencer, whose content celebrates people of all shapes, including her own."Years and years ago, I started an online community called Just Wear the Suit," she said, "and it was really just encouraging women to work on being comfortable where they were. It was really about female empowerment and just feeling at home in our bodies."But her own body was holding her back. For years, she suffered from chronic, incapacitating inflammation of her joints. "I remember telling my husband, this is what it felt like to be old," she said. "I would wake up with severe back pain every single morning. It was to the point where I thought, well, I guess this is just life now at 46."So, after trying practically every remedy out there, Anderson's doctor suggested that her inflammation might be helped by an off-label use of a GLP-1. To her, it was "one-hundred percent a last resort. I think, as someone that had done so much work myself on feeling at home in the size of my body, I was very resistant."
