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At long last, Whitney Thore, a 29-year-old North Carolina radio producer, has thankfully shattered all the pervasive, fat-shaming "Overweight people aren't in shape!" stereotypes with the above video, which has since gone viral and landed her a slot on the Today show.

This particular "A Fat Girl Dancing" video shows Thore breaking it down to Jason Derulo without breaking a sweat — a feat that most of us certainly can't accomplish, and even if we can we look like morons — but she's also got routines to "Blurred Lines," "Gasolina," and, naturally, Miley.

Thore hasn't always been this confident. When she began rapidly gaining weight at age 12, due to a medical condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), she became bulimic. By the time she reached college, as the weight gain continued, she fell into a deep depression and quit all of the activities she once loved — dance classes included.

Eventually, determined to lose the weight at any cost, she applied her low self-image to vigorous exercise. Thore writes, "I became a licensed Zumba instructor who could easily run four miles. I even auditioned for and was accepted into the Dance Therapy program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but outside of the gym, I was still criticised and felt ostracized for being fat. I started to realise that there was more to this self-love thing than just losing weight."

At her coworkers' urging, Thore made a video of herself dancing and put it online, where it got 2.8 million hits. With her No Body Shame Campaign, she now aims to spread the message that ending obesity begins with loving yourself.

She says, "Your body doesn't have to limit you, whether it be deemed 'too skinny,' 'too fat,' or 'broken.' You don't need society's permission to seek your joy right now. Love yourself. Live fully. No excuses. No shame."

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