Why I'm not pretty.

A little blog dedicated to showing you where those 'ugly' feelings come from.

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Famous Instagram teen Essena fabulously quits #InstaFame and blows the cover on the platforms celebrities

Famous Instagram teen Essena fabulously quits #InstaFame and blows the cover on the platforms celebrities

Famous Instagram teen Essena O’Neill fabulously and emotionally quit social media this week. Essena had ‪#‎bodygoals‬ for days and over 600k followers on Instagram. Now, she has had enough, she has made a very insightful and honest video telling people how hard it was to take those “effortless” shots, how much she starved herself to be a member of the ‪#‎fitfam‬ and how fake her Instagram life…

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Boost your Body Confidence now with this Infographic from Happify We love this infographic from the gals & guys over at Happify who share science-backed methods to achieving Body Confidence.

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Whitney, we want to be like you!

Whitney, we want to be like you!

Why is everybody saying that Whitney looks so good these days? 

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Why Do Women Hate Their Bodies?

Why Do Women Hate Their Bodies?

This article originally appeared on Psychcentral.com. Women’s National Health Week, an annual awareness event dedicated to all issues related to women’s health, was May 13-19 this year. In honor of this year’s message, “It’s your time,” I want to draw attention to the link between how we see ourselves and how we treat our bodies. Currently, 80 percent of women in the U.S. are dissatisfied with…

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We’re writing a book! [Sign Up] So, we decided to stop ignoring our urges and go full steam ahead with our life long dream of writing a book.

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Get inspired! Video Series "The Conversation with Amanda De Cadenet"

Get inspired! Video Series “The Conversation with Amanda De Cadenet”

Do you ever stumble upon something that speaks to your life so profoundly that you immediately see your future forming a straight path in front of you? The Conversation with Amanda De Cadenet was one of those phenomena for us. Touted as ” an alternative interview series” for women, created and presented by Amanda de Cadenet and co-produced by Demi Moore, it was like the TV version of all of those…

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6 secrets the beauty industry never wanted you to find out. eBook. Sign up here

Amazing eBook coming out soon revealing how the Beauty Industry really works. Sign up in the above link to get more details.

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Desirability? Nah. I recently read an article on Everyday Feminism about a girl who had struggled with being overweight all of her life. She recounts her journey and comes to the conclusion that being body positive was more helpful to her well-being than having liposuction had ever been. In the piece, when author Pia Schiavo-Campo explained how she used to feel about her body she said "I had zero self-love and I was desperate. I really just wanted to feel desirable and beautiful. And at the time, that translated to thin". This sentence got me thinking. When we say we want to feel "desirable" what do we really mean? Do we even know what we're saying? One would assume that it means we want others to desire us, but we can never get inside someone else's head who thinks we are attractive and feel their desire for us. So it is impossible to feel "desirable" in that way. If women used how often they are cat-called in the street or how often they are hit on or asked out in bars as a gauge to "desirability", then virtually no one could be described as undesirable (remember I'm talking about the amount of times you are hit on/cat-called in general - not the amount of times you were attracted to the guy/girl/creepy man who was doing it!) In my circle of friends and acquaintances, as a twenty-something female I do not know a single person who has never been kissed/been on a date/had a guy be more into them than they were into him at some point. This would mean that everybody I know IS desirable. Maybe some people are more conventionally attractive than others, but everyone appears attractive to someone. "Feeling desirable" therefore must be a different thing. It's as if the beauty industry and the female-focused-media tell us that to feel desirable we must desire ourselves. This is crazy. It is stupid. Desire is something we absolutely cannot feel unto ourselves, let alone control. Are we supposed to self-discipline by cutting out treat-foods and go to the gym and wax our brows and tan our skin and spend 45 minutes gettin' all dressed up and wear spanx and throw on an expensive gown in order to look in the mirror and WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH OURSELVES? Is the goal to climax looking at our own selfies? To what end exactly are we achieving the feeling of "desirability"? (It sounds like no fun). Feeling that oneself is desirable serves no purpose. The most beautiful girl in the world in a room by herself with no wifi connection may feel desirable in terms of her beauty, but with no beholder available to absorb that beauty (for example. a social situation where she may meet a mate - such as a bar, or an Instagram account to share her narcissism) her desirability becomes temporarily extinct. Now and again, it will happen that somebody you thought was out of your league in the looks department will find you attractive and you realize that you have no real idea how attractive you are. Equally, somebody you thought was well within your league might just "not be that into you". Don't say you've never been silently thrilled when you over hear a guy saying this girl you thought was the next Kate Upton "just doesn't do it for me". We can't predict who finds who attractive. So don't be so hard on yourself if you think your looks aren't on par, your desirability is not your responsibility in the same way your eulogy is not your responsibility. It will never be within your control because the way you make others feel cannot be assessed accurately by you. Unless you're the scientist who discovered how to procreate without a mate, forget about desirability and just accept that amazing vessel that keeps all of your organs from falling on the floor [your body, in case you were wondering]! [This is the article from Everyday Feminism :http://everydayfeminism.com/…/liposuction-vs-body-positivi…/]

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The Drake lyric that sums up how you feel when you realize that all this make up still doesn't make you 'beautiful'. https://whyimnotpretty.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/when-you-reflect-on-all-of-the-time-and-money-you-have-spent-on-achieving-the-impossible/

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Can you guess what percentage of this magazine is NOT made up of ads and advertorials? The answer might be a lot lower than you expected! https://whyimnotpretty.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/how-much-substance-do-you-actually-get-when-you-buy-a-womens-magazine/

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Want to see the reason whyimnotpretty thinks you should read this book about the reality of women's magazines? Click here: https://whyimnotpretty.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/a-why-im-not-pretty-book-recommendation-airbrushed-nation/

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Would you rather wake up tomorrow morning looking like Candice Swanepoel or wake up never giving another moment’s thought or energy to looking like her? Freedom or ‘Perfection’? Which would you choose? [Hint: one of these outcomes is actually possible!] For more information on the outcomes click here: https://whyimnotpretty.wordpress.com

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https://whyimnotpretty.wordpress.com Click the link above to see what I would tell #KylieJenner kalifornia-klasss and other girls with insecurities if they had asked me for my advice beforehand.

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