My life has changed immensely ever since my childhood. Even though I always see positivity in change due to the lessons I’ve learned, I feel as though some changes I have made are ones I’m not necessarily proud of. Body image never seemed to be important to me.

When I was a toddler, I felt completely confident about myself because I use to dress up and show off with the stuff that I wore. As I got older, I realized that being “beautiful” wasn’t what I was because in a past relationship I was with someone who made me feel like I was not good enough. He had so many expectations about what I should be and that just wasn’t who I was. I wasn’t comfortable because I tried to be “beautiful” for someone else instead of myself. The more I thought I wasn’t “beautiful”, the more I felt very insecure about myself . In society today, “beautiful” is defined as women who have a good figure, perfect teeth, perfect everything and so on.

I’ve always caught myself comparing myself to other girls and I wouldn’t understand why. I’ve put myself down because I thought I wasn’t good enough or attractive enough, but what I want for others to get out from this is. No matter how you look, no matter what you wear, and no matter what you weigh. You’ll always be beautiful in your own way. Everybody should love who they are as they are because a part of being unique is just being different. Instead of looking exactly like everyone else. The reason why I want everybody to feel good about themselves is so they won’t struggle each and everyday with worrying about how they may look. Nobody should ever live a life full of worry or stress just because they don’t look the way society expects them to look.

What I want others to think about is rather you’re a boy or girl, Why can’t you completely accept yourself as you are? What is stopping you from loving yourself? I feel as though it’s hard for someone to completely accept their self as they are because they are used to being told how they should look, being on social media, and looking at images of certain people. What is stopping someone from loving their self is when they point out the things they don’t like about themselves, and can’t seem to take their mind completely off of it. Though, at the end of the day I feel that you shouldn’t be beautiful for anybody else but yourself.