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Aly Raisman shouts out ‘to the boys who made fun of me’ on Instagram

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Olympic champion gymnast Aly Raisman delivered a powerful social media post about body image, shouting out “to all the boys from 5th-9th grade who made fun of me for being ‘too strong'” on Wednesday.

The post appeared to be part of a Reebok campaign, given a hashtag — #PerfectNever — that Olympic bronze medalist judoka and UFC fighter Ronda Rousey also used with a similar message last week.

Raisman has long been comfortable with the body-image platform.

She appeared in ESPN the Magazine’s “Body Issue” in 2015.

“I feel like a couple years ago, the ESPN Body Issue was something that I would have never thought about doing, but I think at the age of 21 I feel confident in myself and I feel confident in the way that I look,” Raisman said, according to NBCOlympics.