The trick is balance. Don’t put one over the other or try to compensate for one with another. Here is the key to happiness: a good book, long walks, nutritious food, a trustworthy friend (or two), and a positive attitude!
ladies, please remember that there is more to you than the size of your jeans or the number on the scale. don’t let anyone tell you differently. size doesn’t matter. and guess what? you ARE beautiful ❤
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Let's Talk About ED: Are Ultra-Curvy Celebrities Actually Helping Women Feel Body Positive? ⇢
While scary-skinny models airbrushed into oblivion aren’t helpful for women, to be honest, the recent boom of “curvy” women may not be either.
This isn’t the first time we’ve touched on the subject of the resurgence of ‘curves’. Editor Briana wrote about the “C” word some time ago, and…
Don’t try to force yourself into being something you’re not!
I remember when I was doing rent and I was too thin, and I was doing that on purpose because I’m dying, I’m a HIV+ drug addict. I remember having to eat raw food and doing all this work to make sure I could stay thin… And I remember everyone asking me when I was doing press for the movie, “what did you do to get so thin? You looked great!” and I’m like, “I looked emaciated.”
It’s a form of violence in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be, for… what’s sake? Not health, not survival, not enjoyment of life, but just so that you can look ‘pretty’.
I’m constantly telling girls all the time, “everything’s airbrushed, everything’s retouched, to the point of just that it’s never even asked, and none of us look like that.”
- Rosario Dawson
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If you feel insecure, you should watch this.
It goes for men too, even though this video is aimed towards women.
Oh my gosh, this is absolutely brilliant. She is brilliant. And so accurate.
And I agree with savasana, this applies to men too! Men are also objectified, men also face the same pressures that women do to look/act/be a certain way. Men are just as capable as women of succumbing to eating disorders.
So ladies and gents alike, I hope you watch this, and I hope that it makes you realize, or if you already know, I hope it reminds you, that you are beautiful the way you are. It’s okay to not look like celebrities do, because they don’t look like that either.
And the bottom line is that it is the content of your character that defines your beauty and worth, not whether or not you have pores. (That was a reference to the video.)
**Trigger warning: she talks about eating disorders.**
This was the most fabulous thing we watched in my cornerstones class last semester; the whole documentary is absolutely enlightening and everyone should watch it.
