Promote Body Acceptance

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http://www.bodypositive.com/

I’m so sick of feeling like a freak for not thinking I’m ugly, fat, or both. What is with this? Why the intense self loathing? Does everyone like being unhappy with themselves or something? (Is this why I have only a few female friends?)

I’m short and I found the best in that. I have rosacea and most days I still think I’m gorgeous. I have a TON of stretchmarks and I think they are adorable. All the hair around the nape of my neck and around my face fell out after Gabriel was born. I’m brunette – not a ‘fun blonde’ or a ‘fiery redhead’ – and I love it! My hair is like 3 different lengths now and parts are just growing out to where I can get it all in a pony tail – and I’m waiting for it to fall out again from Shawn’s birth. AND STILL I am happy (albeit sometimes frustrated) with my impromptu hair style. I can’t tan! I love my freckled arms and shoulders and I love my pale white legs – which I might add have cellulite. I have a gap in my top front teeth which I think are cute. I love my feet, my butt and my stomach, my breasts, my hands, neck, face, eyes and my soprano-that-struggles-to-reach-low voice – everything!

A few of my friends are overweight and they have accepted it all right – but not in a good way. One friend won’t leave her verbally abusive boyfriend because she has convinced herself that no one else would want her because she is ‘fat’.

I think this goal was worded incorrectly. Maybe it should have been “promote positive body acceptance.”

The Century Project, by photographer Frank Cordelle, is a chronological series of nude photographic portraits of more than one hundred women and girls from the moment of birth to nearly a hundred years of age. A diverse group of photographs comprising women of many ages, shapes, sizes, and life experiences is presented in this exquisitely disarming project. Most of the images are accompanied by moving statements written by the women themselves.

The Century Project in its entirety consists of an exhibit, a newly published book titled Bodies and Souls: The Century Project, and this website

I really need to accept my body. I’m never happy with it…no matter what size it is!

Important.

So, thanks to everyone who cheered this goal. :-)

Is there a rule that I can’t cross post my own enteries onto other enteries? Because if there is, too damn bad!

Ok, now that we’ve got that out of the way…..

I just posted an entry that I think falls into more than one category, so…..

Check it out

not just body accepance, so I’m giving this up for now.

I want everyone to know that their body is not the enemy the media and society make it out to be! Your body is wonderful and so are you!