I wonder what it feels like to be skinny, and thin, and wake up in the morning in nothing but a t-shirt, undies, messy hair, that ‘just woke up look’ and still have someone think I’m hot, to have guys look at me, to have guys want to be my boyfriend, to have girls be jealous of my body, to feel my hipbones and collarbones, to feel confident in a bikini, to sit down and not feel fat everywhere, to not rub out the thighs in my jeans, to need a smaller size in the store, I wonder what its like to look in the mirror and like what I see, and not want to break the mirror. Pretty much, I just want to be beautiful. I could go on forever..
Dear girls who think that’s what it means to be beautiful, I just took some pictures for you. I am not skinny. I am not thin. I am not super-model material. But I am comfortable in my own skin. I can wear this bikini with enough confidence to just not give a shit if there are skinnier girls who look better. Wanna wake up with messy hair and feel beautiful? You don’t need permission! You don’t need someone else to tell you you’re beautiful. You have to tell yourself before other people can get the chance. I can’t feel my collar bones, I’ve got a few too many chins. And as you can tell in the last picture, there is no way in hell I’ll ever be able to feel my hip bones. But why would you want to? Who decided that skin and bones is the only beautiful there is? Sure, there’s lots of girls skinnier than me, prettier than me, who look better in a bikini and don’t have as much extra baggage to carry, but hell, if there were lots of girls like me, I wouldn’t be so damn unique.
Be proud of who you are. Be proud of yourself, your body, your image, whatever size you are. Size 0 is beautiful. Size 12 is beautiful. Size 24 is beautiful. All sizes are beautiful. No number determines beauty, and the first step to realizing that is to tell yourself you’re beautiful— and MEAN it!
I use to have that.. wtf. tumblr is making me feel like shit for once…
As much as I love the message that you’re beautiful no matter what the number is, I think this gives off the wrong impression. If you really, truly want to make people believe and understand that they’re beautiful if they’re a 0 or a 22, or any size, shouldn’t you be convincing them that beauty has nothing to do with weight? The scale does not define your beauty.
