Why should we ever feel like we need to look at certain images and emulate them or live up to them?
Who is to say why one body is better than another? Who tells us what is beautiful? What is smart? What is valued?
Why can not things be respective and individual? Human beings are not the same, and the world would be dull for sameness.
I challenge the notion that beauty magazines hold 'secrets'
that television shows can tell us 'what not to wear'
that the mirror shows an accurate version of myself
that the fashion industry can pin a number to my body, as if I were made of plastic.
I am living from the inside out
I reach out to people, with authentic emotions and best intentions.
I am real and I am alive.