My Christmas wish is that women all over the world could look in the mirror and feel 100% happy with their bodies.
I've never met a woman who felt that way. Even close friends and family who to my eye, have beautiful bodies; bodies that are our culture's very definition of beauty, want to change something: bigger boobs, thinner thighs, less visible veins, fewer pimples, longer hair.
This Christmas, let's remember Naomi Wolf's words: "A woman wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to truly see her."
Instead of complaining that your thighs "jiggle", honour them for carrying you for your entire life. Instead of wishing for your visible veins to disappear, honour them for carrying blood to your heart! Don't stress about your cellulite; it is a perfectly natural (and genetic) thing for 80-90% of women to have and is, in fact, your body's response to your female hormones (that's right - the same hormones that give you breasts, also give you cellulite). So why don't we see it with the same adoring eye that we look upon our breasts with? It is a female marker, after all! Just a thought.
I have to face the truth that I will NEVER have the body of Keira Knightly (even if I was to lose weight and have surgery).
I have to face the truth that I will NEVER have the body of Keira Knightly (even if I was to lose weight and have surgery).
And that's okay!
One of the best Christmas gifts you can give yourself is to look in the mirror and be okay with what you see.
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