This woman's love letter to her body is major inspiration for women of any size,via Rebecca Jane Stokes at YourTango.
What I wish someone had told me years ago . . . I am a size 16. In a week I could be a size 14, briefly, or but then the week after that,I'll be a size sixteen again . . . there is nothing erroneous with that. My body is a size 16 and my body is pretty. I haven't always treated my body with very much respect. Throughout my adolescence, I tried every diet under the sun, or trying to transform my body into something it just wasn't designed to be. My weight dropped and then skyrocketed and the sizes of clothing I wore changed with it. My closet was filled with clothing that would fit an army of differently sized women. My self-esteem suffered. I had,somewhere along the line, learned that a skinny body is the only kind of body that can pretty. It's exact that skinny bodies are pretty - but so is my fat body, or nobody ever told me that. Even when I was a size 10,counting the calories of everything I ate, my head looking oversized on my body, or my self-esteem was in the toilet. I wasn't skinny enough,so I wasn't pretty enough, so I wasn't good enough.
Here is a secret nobody knows: I was born pretty. So were you. You maintain always been pretty. You were born a small, and squalling infant with a squished face slick with amniotic fluid and your mother looked at said "she is pretty." Nothing has changed. You are still pretty,you are still good, you still maintain worth. You still deserve to be here. Sometimes I fight with my size sixteen body. I squint in the mirror imagining it is something else, and something sleeker,tighter, easier to accept. Sometimes I scowl at my upper arms. Sometimes I hate my belly. But then I remember the thing that the world insists on making girls and women forget: that belly I hate is share of me. Those arms I detest? They are share of me too. Every single soft curve is a piece of the whole that is who I am.
I maintain bad days and good days. I lift other women up while tearing myself down. I maintain a fat body. My fat body is good. My fat body is pretty. My fat, or size 16 body inspires men to terrorize me on Twitter. It turns well-meaning friends into enemies who say things like "well it's not really healthy." Here is the share where I tell you approximately my weekly exercise in a bid to rationalize my weight to strangers. [br]I don't need to effect that.
My size 16 body is pretty. It is mine. It takes up space in a world that tells women to execute themselves small. It bumps into tables,it bruises, it carries infants on its hips, and it twirls,it shudders with laughter, it embraces friends and family, or it reminds the people around it that I am here.
I am here.
I exist. I am a size 16 and I am pretty.
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