Please take a moment and read this: You are beautiful. You. Are. Beautiful. YOU. ARE. BEAUTIFUL! Yes, you. The one reading this and shaking your head, not believing those words. As you read the words "you are beautiful", you might be looking down at your stomach that has some extra weight to it or not enough weight; wishing it was thinner or bigger. You might be looking at your legs that have no thigh gap or a thigh gap you hate; wishing you could just have perfect legs. You might be looking at your arms that are not the size you would like them to be or your feet that you hate so much; wishing they were completely different. You might be looking at your hair that never does what you want it to do or your eyebrows that are never the way you like; wishing you didn't have to put so much effort into your appearance. You might be looking at your nose or your skin that's not perfect; wishing more than anything you could just snap your fingers and it all becomes exactly what you see in the magazines. You may be looking at your entire appearance in a mirror, wishing you were someone else and hating every inch of what's looking back at you. Well, let me tell you something - each of those things you hate so much, make you who you are. They make you, YOU. No one else on this planet has your eyes, your skin, your stomach, your legs, your hair, and so on. And that is amazing. You are one of a kind and no one could ever replace you. I don't care if you are a size 0 or a size 22, you are beautiful. Do not listen to what society says, don't take the nasty comments to heart, don't regard those who give you bad looks, and don't ever listen to the negative voices in your head. You are beautiful. Words could never even begin to express how beautiful you truly are. Please wipe those tears, take a deep breathe, and smile because my god you are so beautiful inside and out. Every inch of you is perfect just the way it is. You do not need to change to fit into "society's expectations"! Why would you want to change who you are to be like everyone else? You are uniquely beautiful. One of a kind. Separate from the rest. Perfect just the way you are. Trust me, I know how you feel 100%. I use to be the "fat friend", the one people would look at in disgust or laugh at, the one who hated buying new clothes because I could never find the right size, the one who would avoid mirrors, and the one who never loved herself. I would spend many nights crying; wishing and begging that I could somehow be like the girls in the magazines... that I would wake up and suddenly look completely different... But even after losing a lot of weight, I realized that no matter how much I weigh or what I look like, it won't change who I am. It made me realize, that I am beautiful no matter what because I am me and there is only one of me. The same goes to you. You are beautiful because you are you. Every single person on this planet - big, small and in between - hates something about themselves. We are all struggling with loving ourselves each and every day because society has placed such high expectations of what beautiful is. We need to take a moment right now and realize that we each are completely different and just how beautiful that truly is. So today I want you to say "I AM BEAUTIFUL!" Share this, like this, comment on this, hate on this, or just completely ignore this. This is my try at changing society's view of what beautiful is and this is me letting every single one of you on this planet know that you are truly truly truly beautiful. ❤️
