For most of my life, I have struggled with the way I look. I would constantly worry about how I looked and how much I weighed. Always comparing myself to others thinking that I needed to change. When I was younger in high school, there wasn't a lot of positivity and publicity about body image. It made me feel low and bad about myself. So I started to find ways to hide my stomach, wearing high-waisted pants, tucking shirts in to make them fit loose, fit to flare dresses. And then I started to see stretch marks show up and that made me feel even more insecure than normal.
Until about the beginning of my third year of high school, I started to see more in the media about being bigger and started to learn to like the way my body looks. No matter how much I weighed. I started to feel more confident in my look and changing some things with my styling choices. I began to like my body, stretch marks and all, and not compare myself to others. So if you’re reading this, and you feel the same way about your look as I did. I hope that you know that you are beautiful no matter what.
Thank you for sharing this <3 I think it's important to talk about body-positivity and loving yourself, cause it's still a lot of people who need to change the way that they looking at yourself. It took me years to start to accept my body. It was time when I didn't feel pretty and comparing myself to others too. It starts changing when I saw my body in a big mirror in my friend's bathroom. I look at myself I thought "Why I hate this?" It isn't always perfect, sometimes I critic how I look, but it's better.