FINALLY!

I was having a really rough day.  I sent off my son, my last baby, to Kindergarten without me today.  I also went to Target looking for a bathing suit.  Needless to say, I was feeling really, really bad about myself.  Big, used up, and without purpose are a few things I was thinking.

Then I saw this article.   And I am smiling, and just feeling on top of the world.  I love Lizzi Miller.  She is a supposed plus-size (she’s a size 12, which in my book is an average sized woman, right?) model, and at the age of 20, she’s found such a wonderful mental space.  She is an example of loving yourself being the best state of mind for a healthy life.

She posed in just underwear - with her belly bulge showing.  No airbrushing, no smoothing out her stretch marks.  And she talks about how seeing other women like herself on tv and in magazines has helped her body image.  She’s right.  Seeing her there, looking so normal, so achievable even, helped me to put my own body into different perspective.  I think I might print her picture and keep it for any time I’m bashing myself.

Amazingly, unlike Self, Glamour chose to couple an article about positive body image no matter your size with a picture of a real woman - without airbrushing.  Kudos to them for this monumental step.  Pictures with the words are so much more forceful.  Hopefully, they realize from the outpouring of positive emails and letters that this is how we want to see all the pages in the magazine.

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