When morning news anchor Tanja Babich learned her 10-year-old daughter had not been wearing her prescription eye glasses over several months of remote learning, she decided to put herself in her daughter's shoes -- or eyes, rather. "She was afraid of what people would think, that she would look stupid or that she wasn't pretty in them," the Chicago news anchor for WLS-TV told Good Morning America. "I told her, 'first of all, you're beautiful in your glasses and, second of all, glasses are not a big deal. People don't care if you wear glasses or not.' And she wasn't buying it." So Babich tried a different approach: She practiced what she preached and wore her glasses while on air for the next week. Her executive producer supported the idea and suggested that sharing her story with viewers could help others. So, at the end of the week, she personally told viewers about her daughter and how she'd been wearing her glasses to make a point: "Whatever people say or think about you is none of your business. Just be yourself, authentically and unapologetically. The rest will work itself out." Babich then turned to a planned montage of celebrities wearing glasses and was surprised at the end by many of her remote colleagues calling in with videos of themselves sporting glasses in support.

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