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Our mission: to love ourselves, every last inch! To support others, help build positive self esteem! This is The Body Peace Revolution!

This is a place of encouragement, a place to talk about body image, a place for feeling beautiful. No matter what you look like, what color, what gender, what size or however many "flaws", healthy, not healthy, working on it, we are all human, we all deserve to be happy, we all deserve to love ourselves. With this blog you will see all kinds of REAL bodies, REAL people, REAL stories.

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It’s okay if you don’t think I’m beautiful. 

randomlancila:

You call me fat. Okay, well…first of all, that’s pretty obvious. Second of all, you say that like it’s a bad thing. Like it’s an insult. And that ship sailed long ago. Fat is not on my list of ‘bad things people can be’. Hell, my favorite piece of jewelry is a necklace that says fat. Pass me a cupcake!

You say I’m not beautiful. That’s okay too. Beauty is subjective. Everybody HAS beauty, but not everyone is going to be beautiful to someone else. That in itself is beautiful. The fact that beauty is subjective! Things that I might not find attractive, someone else adores. And vice versa. It means there truly is someone out there for everyone, because there’s no ‘mold’ to fill. No one perfect person who everyone is attracted to.

You say I’m stupid to love myself. You know what I think is stupid? The fact that we live in a world that makes money off of making people hate themselves. The fact that companies study exactly what it is that makes people insecure and create advertising campaigns promising to ‘fix’ what’s not wrong to begin with. Because the problem isn’t my body, or your body, or anyone’s body. (or face/hair/skin/makeup choices, etc.) The problem is the perception of myself, yourself, ourselves, that we are expected to have. There’s this false illusion that there’s some perfection that we can attain. That if we diet just enough, wear just the right shade of lipstick, pick the correct pair of jeans, we’ll be popular and everyone will fawn over us. But it’s not real.

The biggest fuck you that you can give, to anyone who calls you ugly, fat, a stick, four eyes, any racial slur, any slur against your sexuality, your political beliefs, your physical appearance, is to love yourself regardless. These people live to see you fall. It frustrates them when the things they say don’t get to you. They win when you’re affected. This goes for anyone who treats you like less than you deserve. Friends, family, boyfriends, girlfriends, random people on the street, at school, or online. Just because someone says something negative to you, it does NOT make it true. And even if it IS true, it doesn’t take away from your beauty.

Do not let the opinions of other people define you.

Do not let your own demons win. Because those voices telling you you’re not enough? They’re wrong.

Any time someone out there has a negative opinion of you? Let them have it. Don’t feel the need to fight it. To prove it wrong. To sling an insult back. Smile, move on, and be happy. Because they’re the one with the negativity. Not you. That in itself is beautiful.

Reblogging this from myself again because I think it’s SUCH an important message to the members of this community. YOU are the only one who can choose whether to hate or love yourself. The opinions of others is irrelevant. Never forget that!

Love,

Amber