I didn’t appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It’s never good to add to anybody else’s suffering. It’s an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Cho reflects on how body-image obsession can eclipse self-recognition and gratitude for one’s younger self. The first sentences capture a common retrospective regret: the “felt fat” narrative becomes so consuming that it erases the ability to see beauty, vitality, or worth in the present. She then widens the point into an ethical stance—“It’s never good to add to anybody else’s suffering”—suggesting that shame (including self-shame) easily spills outward into judgment, cruelty, or complicity in harmful standards. The closing emphasis on “gravity,” “importance,” and “dignity” frames body talk and public discourse about appearance as moral issues, not trivial vanity: how we speak about bodies affects real human dignity.