Beauty pageants always portray thin, busty, leggy women.
There are so many gorgeous women in this world who don't fit that bill.
I've seen beautiful women who are curvy and embrace it, I've seen people with disabilities who glow with more confidence and radiance than some of these "beauty queens". I think it's shallow that we have women strut half naked in front of a panel to be judged, while there are coming-of-age girls out there dealing with self-image issues. Imagine just growing into yourself and watching cookie cutter women be judged for perfection? it's gross.
growing up I was always really tiny and thin, almost scrawny. I was always made fun of, people would joke that I was born premature, as if that would even be something to laugh at if I were.
I was always self conscious, finding fitting clothes was a nightmare, and then bigger people would tell me to stop complaining, because I was luckier than them.
I internalized my body image problems until I recently realized just how much I like my body. I am so fortunate to have health and love that I realized there was nothing wrong with me physically. and when the beauty fades, it's the personality that matters. when the face wrinkles, your smile's all that you've go to physically portray your internal radiance.
I want to live in a world where big girls, small girls, and all of the in-betweens feel beautiful about who they are, and who can embrace their bodies' uniqueness. I want people to learn to see their individual traits not as 'flaws', but as their individual and beautiful characteristics. everyone is beautiful. everyone deserves to feel confidence and love and hope.
if anyone tells you otherwise, they're ugly on the inside, and they're nobody to talk.
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