Last week, Kristen @ From Kristen, With Love (Also my elementary friend from real life) posted a reminder that we're beautiful which was my inspiration for this post!
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As a young girl I remember wanting so badly to look like so many of all my other friends. In elementary school, I was always in swim-team every summer...and what do you ya know? While all my other friends were getting tan, I was gaining freckles and lobster skin.
In middle school, when all the other girls were super thin or only slightly chubby I was the girl with a womanly hour-glass shape and love-handles that turned into Irish birthing hips. I'd constantly put down my body yearning to be a size I could never become. And it wasn't until I saw the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty that I finally started to appreciate my own beauty.
I started seeing my freckles as what sets me apart from everyone else. And those hips? I embraced them as a part of a woman's body. And I didn't even know it until years later that some of my friends actually wished they had curves and freckles.
You have a beautiful blog! and i love this post, i have a passion for beauty and the hidden secrets beauty holds. beauty is not our outward appearance, beauty the treasure of the heart.
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-Katie Jo @ http://gazeintomyheart.blogspot.com
I am a freckly one too! However, I haven't been blessed with the womanly curves...other than my disproportionately big bum. That's ok - boyfriend likes it ! Hahah. It has taken me many years to be ok with my body, but I am definitely glad I am at this point finally.
ReplyDeletewhat a great post reminding us to embrace ourselves - inside and out!
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dorothy
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