Body Image

HAHA!

Did you read this article?

It is an article about Glamour Magazine featuring a scantily clad "plus size" model.

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This is 20 year old Lizzie Miller. Lizzie is a size 10-12 and was told, according to the article linked above, by modeling agencies that she was "too big" for "plus size" modeling.

Apparently, "plus size" models are size 8-10.

Huh.

Personally, I think Lizzie looks pretty damn good. She looks like she is tall and curvaceous, and yeah, she has a little belly, but nothing to be ashamed of.

She is a beautiful, normal, average, regular WOMAN shaped body.

I was thrilled to see that Glamour received over 700 emails in support of this image and using regular, average size people in their magazine.

I think, just maybe, the tide is starting to turn.

Women are sick and tired of trying to achieve the unachievable airbrushed and photo shopped "perfection" that we are shown in the media every day.

Show me a real woman, with a little curve, a little belly, a little hip and a little comfort in her own body! I will be much more likely to buy whatever you are selling me if I don't feel bad about myself while doing it!

I'm all for being healthy, fit and active, but I gotta tell ya...Lizzie here looks pretty damn fit and healthy to me!

What do you think?

Inner light

People are like stained-glass windows. 

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. 

~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross



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You Are Beautiful

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes.

 It is not something physical. "

~ Sophia Loren

Beauty is not housed in your physical body.

Beauty is the energy you exude to the world when you are confident within yourself.

Your beauty cannot be ignored when you are at peace with who you are and are confident in your power.

People that are seen as beautiful are actually exuding confidence and security.

You, too, have the light and beauty within to exude confidence.

You are beautiful. Right this minute. Just as you are.

Embrace your inner light and expose your beauty to the world.

The Scale

The only thing your scale should ever tell you!

Everything else it has to say is less important.

Some days I struggle greatly with the scale, what is says, and what that means about what kind of a person I am.

The truth?

The scale is not able to measure my worth as a person.

It is not able to tell me how valuable I am.

It doesn't have the capacity to measure my strength.

It doesn't know how to quantify the light in my heart.

It can't tell me how good a friend I am or how good a wife I am.

The scale cannot measure my abilities.

The scale ONLY can measure my relationship with gravity.

And whatever the scale says does not indicate a weakness in me.

Step off the scale.

Step on the path to a lighter heart by simply starting to live your life.

If you live the life you imagine...whether that is hiking mountains, dancing the tango or simply being able to keep up with your kids, it will no longer matter what the scale says.

The measurement of your relationship with gravity is not a reflection of who you are.

Your daily activities are a reflection of who you are.

Start being who you want to be, today.