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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated October 3, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
I don’t know Analis Cruz personally, but we both have something in common.
When she was younger, scrolling through fitness campaigns and activewear ads, she never saw girls who looked like her. Not the Dominican-Puerto Rican girls from the Bronx with loud families and big dreams. Not girls whose fathers came to this country with nothing and built everything
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