Susie Milwit found her seventh grade journal while cleaning out her closet, but what she read left her "a little freaked out.

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The ‘Boy Meets World’ alum shares a diary entry from a time where “if you had curves" you were "supposed to feel bad" Everett, MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Danielle Fishel shared a journal entry from ...