Plus-size Pole Dancer Wants To Teach The World About Confidence

Meet Eda Marbury, the Plus-Size Pole Dancer Who Wants to Teach the World About Confidence

In a new video from BuzzFeed Health, Eda Marbury shares her journey with body acceptance, food and how she was able to overcome them with the help of pole dancing as a fitness routine.

Now this is how you twirl on your haters.

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The story begins with Marbury's anorexia.

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Which improved once she met and married her now-husband.

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Marbury had to come to terms with her weight.

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And then she sought a way to make it better: pole dancing.

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"I was afraid, at first, of people laughing at me and making fun of me, but once I started going, I felt more confident about what I was doing and it didn't matter what people were going to say," Marbury told BuzzFeed Health.

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Once she began to practice her sport, Marbury became more confident and even began to post videos of herself online.

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While there were detractors this is the internet, after all most welcomed her videos and applauded her for sharing her story.

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Besides, there's only one thing that matters: Marbury loves her body.

Watch Eda Marbury's inspirational story: