Two years ago I asked my mother for a bikini. She said she wasn't comfortable with me showing so much skin. Two months later my skinny little sister laid on a towel in a turquoise bikini. I laid on a towel in a long sleeve sun shirt that my mother wouldn't let me take off.
One year ago I asked my mother for a bikini. With reluctance she gave me her floral print bikini from when she was my age. Two months later she took it back claiming that she wasn't comfortable with me showing so much skin. So she gave it to my skinny little sister.
This year I will not ask my mother for a bikini. I will buy one and I don't care if my mother says that she's not comfortable with me showing so much skin. I will show as much of my imperfect skin as I want. Because my skinny little sister isn't the only one who has a bikini body.