I read an article recently that really inspired me to write about
his month’s topic, feeling pretty.
There are too many plus-sized
women out there who are running away from mirrors because,
they are made to feel ugly and
undesirable every day and that
just does not have to be the
case. If you are an overweight
child then it will start at a young
age and continue throughout our
lives, we have it ingrained in our
minds that if we are not thin, we
are not pretty, or we hear “You
are so pretty in the face, if only
you would lose weight”, we are
the only ones that can stop this
and allow ourselves to look in the
mirror and like what we see. I am
not in any way saying that as
long as you feel pretty you do not
have to address your weight issues, I have been battling mine
literally all of my life, but I am
saying that in the process you
can increase your self-worth, self
-esteem, self-image and feel
good while you work on the
weight. Notice the word “self” is
used several times in that last
sentence, why?, because you
have to do it yourself, no one
else can make you feel pretty.
It took me years to be able to
look in the mirror and see a pretty woman, I had a childhood full
of being made fun of and bullied
because I was a fat kid. I kept
my head down and avoided eye
contact in high school in hopes I
would just be unnoticed, but every day was like hell for me. I honestly did not have my first real
date until I was in my late teens.
One day something just snapped