WHY DOES EVERYONE ELSE LOOK AMAZING BUT I DON'T GIVE MYSELF THE SAME COMPLIMENTS?
Hey Girlies... a bit of a different post...from the norm that is.
I am a PLUS SIZE chic... have been ALL MY LIFE... have never been slimmer than a size UK14 (apart from when I was younger than 12)... as time has gone by that size has grown and grown... partly my fault partly medical (I have PCOS)...
When I was a teenager, I didnt have the fab plus size bloggers we now have, or fab plus size fashion like we have from Simply Be, Fabulous (from Very) and well all the other well known clothing range...as well as models in the plus size range... I come from a country where looks are HIGHLY IMPORTANT, and where 'gorditas' are not that common...my beautiful Colombia, full of beautiful women, however most of them have had some sort of surgery - lipo, but implants, boob implants (even ribs taken out...i kid you not!)... anyways so basically I had no encouragement to love myself for being gordita, it was always 'you have such a pretty face, if only you lost a bit of weight, and I get it to this day...
So what is the point to this post? ... well... I've got so fed up of being told what is beautiful and what is not, based on size and weight, and Im fed up of dieting... (even tho i still do it? go figure!) and so Ive almost turned to images on FB and internet of plus size models, and bloggers, who all look FREAKIN AMAZING!!! some are way bigger than I am, yet i still look at their pics and think DAMN SHE LOOKS GOOD... so ive now asked myself,
WHO INSPIRES ME...
have you ladies checked out Volup2 ??? I mean this magazine is amazing...it was the first magazine I looked at and thought wow! I wish I had the courage to pose like that... and I've seen more and more magazine aimed at the plus size FASHIONISTAS which is amazing! and inspiring... Ive also looked to Georgina Horne from Fuller Figure Fuller Bust for inspiration, she is an inspiration to many of us busty, curvy ladies! ... then you also have Courtney Mina from The Glitter Thread and who can forget the awesome VELVET D'AMOUR ... there are also inspiring models such as Denise Bidot, Fluvia Lacerda, Rosie Mercado & Lornalitz Baez..there are so many others as well...I am sure you all have your favourites too...
MY MISSION...
to stop wishing I looked like everyone else, and start appreciating the way I look a bit more...the way I give props to those gorgeous ladies who I admire so much, I need to also give myself and view myself in the same way... because one day, If I have a daughter, I want her to always feel amazing, and never to question whether she is beautiful based on what she hears or sees in mainstream media...
xoxox JennJenn
Hey Girlies... a bit of a different post...from the norm that is.
I am a PLUS SIZE chic... have been ALL MY LIFE... have never been slimmer than a size UK14 (apart from when I was younger than 12)... as time has gone by that size has grown and grown... partly my fault partly medical (I have PCOS)...
When I was a teenager, I didnt have the fab plus size bloggers we now have, or fab plus size fashion like we have from Simply Be, Fabulous (from Very) and well all the other well known clothing range...as well as models in the plus size range... I come from a country where looks are HIGHLY IMPORTANT, and where 'gorditas' are not that common...my beautiful Colombia, full of beautiful women, however most of them have had some sort of surgery - lipo, but implants, boob implants (even ribs taken out...i kid you not!)... anyways so basically I had no encouragement to love myself for being gordita, it was always 'you have such a pretty face, if only you lost a bit of weight, and I get it to this day...
So what is the point to this post? ... well... I've got so fed up of being told what is beautiful and what is not, based on size and weight, and Im fed up of dieting... (even tho i still do it? go figure!) and so Ive almost turned to images on FB and internet of plus size models, and bloggers, who all look FREAKIN AMAZING!!! some are way bigger than I am, yet i still look at their pics and think DAMN SHE LOOKS GOOD... so ive now asked myself,
'Jenn why do you think she looks amazing, but you hate showing pics of yourself from the waist down...'
I have come to realize that I AM MY OWN WORST CRITIC and I need to stop judging myself so harshly...
WHO INSPIRES ME...
have you ladies checked out Volup2 ??? I mean this magazine is amazing...it was the first magazine I looked at and thought wow! I wish I had the courage to pose like that... and I've seen more and more magazine aimed at the plus size FASHIONISTAS which is amazing! and inspiring... Ive also looked to Georgina Horne from Fuller Figure Fuller Bust for inspiration, she is an inspiration to many of us busty, curvy ladies! ... then you also have Courtney Mina from The Glitter Thread and who can forget the awesome VELVET D'AMOUR ... there are also inspiring models such as Denise Bidot, Fluvia Lacerda, Rosie Mercado & Lornalitz Baez..there are so many others as well...I am sure you all have your favourites too...
MY MISSION...
to stop wishing I looked like everyone else, and start appreciating the way I look a bit more...the way I give props to those gorgeous ladies who I admire so much, I need to also give myself and view myself in the same way... because one day, If I have a daughter, I want her to always feel amazing, and never to question whether she is beautiful based on what she hears or sees in mainstream media...
xoxox JennJenn
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