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Here's How Lauren Conrad Inspired Body-Shaming-Free Web Browsing

You have the power to control words.

Earlier this month, Lauren Conrad announced that she was so done using words like "skinny," "slim" or "thin" when talking about getting in shape on her self-titled lifestyle website.

And LC was definitely on to something: Words have some serious power — especially when young people are reading them every day and wondering whether their bodies will ever measure up to certain standards.

Enter: Honest.

Honest

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An extension for your Google Chrome web-browser, Honest takes cues from LC's mission: it removes the damaging, less-effective language from the sites you look at in Chrome, replacing them with terms that are less shame-y. Then it lets you see how frequently they showed up in the first place.

"You can’t be a female this day and age without being bombarded with websites, commercials, and ads telling you how you should feel about yourself and your body," Sue Lee, the extension's co-creator told MTV News via email. "This was made even more obvious to me after seeing Jon Stewart’s bit about Caitlyn Jenner and how the media quickly changed the topic of their comments with a change of gender. I’m just tired of it."

Honest

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This extension is not all about plugging your ears and ignoring the words you don't like, instead it's about looking closer at the language we're using, why we care so much about it and why it happens pretty much everywhere.

"Skinny, slim, and thin are just a start," Lee said. "I recognize that not all skinny, slim, and thin people are healthy. This Chrome extension is meant to be just a conversation starter. I wanted to bring awareness around how prevalent body-shaming is around the web. And maybe this will (help) change how we talk about women."

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