The Full-Figured Fashion Column For Confident Curves
Author: Christina Waheed Photography: Elizabeth Sostizzo Model: Christina Waheed ey all! It’s still summer and school just started for most of us! We all know that summer brings out the feelings of wanting to look cute, “summery”, and have a ton of outdoor fun. Not to mention it brings us right into the beginning of a new school year, wanting to stand out with confidence, cuteness, and a sexy-fun look of sophistication. As you know, my column is all about helping you to feel confident in your curves, no matter what your size is! We all deserve to feel sassy and classy in our day to day strut! In this issue, I will talk about confidence issues in the plus-size community, as well as take a look at a couple outfits that were my favorite this summer, and a couple I am excited to sport this next season for school. As a plus-size female, I know the ups and downs of being a bigger girl. You may not believe it, but it is a daily struggle sometimes for me to feel confident when I step outside that door. You can’t just wake up one morning and decide, “I’m beautiful and I am confident about it”, especially when society’s standards for beauty are staring you in the face wherever you go. You have to put all that nonsense in a place of no worth in your head, and remember that it is simply not reality. You are worth living this life, not hiding through it, dress however you please. Plus, as I always say, when you dress better, it gives you a boost of confidence which helps you get that job, or speak up in class, feel worth, or whatever it is that you need more confidence for. Now that isn’t all that there is to it, but sometimes when you don’t know how to do something naturally, you just have to go with the flow, have fun and put on those red high-heels, see how it makes you feel and the changes it brings. Self-worth, in example, having confidence in your curves, comes with self-love, and self-acceptance— and those are pretty hard things to do sometimes. We all have that thing that happened, that person who said something, or a family who just doesn’t get it, I understand. But there comes a point in your life where you have to ask yourself, “what about me?”, “what do I want and need?”, “what about my opinion and what I like?” And here is what I am going to tell you to help you put that first step towards self-healing and acceptance: No one, not one person on Earth, is going to love you more than you can love yourself. No one is going to treat you better than you can treat yourself, support you better than you can and so on.You are the key to your own happiness. You don’t need anyone else’s approval to start loving and treating you, your body, and your mind, better than anyone else can. Once you get that through your head, it’s like a domino effect. Little by little, you will get there, to your goals, your dreams, your confident attitude and demeanor. You can do it, but you have to do you first; you have got to love you first. Check out these super cute outfits in the following pages and keep in touch with me through my Facebook or my blog.
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