Happy Wednesday!
Can I be honest with you guys? The last few days I haven't felt very beautiful. My husband tells me all the time that I am but I've been struggling to see that beauty myself.
It started with a business meeting last week. I had high hopes for the outfit I picked but the skirt wasn't working right, I couldn't fine my spanx so my stomach didn't look right. It just wasn't my best and I usually nail stuff like this. Then it was just down hill from there.
I started feeling fat and unattractive in everything I put on. My style game was just off. And I realized it was because I didn't feel beautiful.
I was always a skinny girl and that was what I was know for. The shortest and the smallest in my family. But since becoming a mom, clothes don't fit me like they used to, my face is fuller and so is my stomach. Lol. And I guess I didn't realize how much of my identity was wrapped up in being the "skinny girl".
As women the way we perceive ourselves is so important. We all will have many different forms of ourselves as we get older and all those forms are beautiful. In my teens when I was a size 4, I was beautiful. In my 20s when I was a size 8, I was beautiful. In my 30s now, a size 10-12, I'm beautiful.
It's just different.
Don't let anyone, including yourself, tell you that you aren't. You have to know that your beauty is much more than how you look on the outside or the tag of that dress. It includes the breadth of experiences that have brought you to this point in your life - The style faux pas, the trials you have survived, the hairstyles, the lifestyle changes, horribly regrettable trends of the 80s and 90s lol.
Everyday you won't feel beautiful but you need to know that you are beautiful.
So I have a little bit of a gut now and my hips are wider than they used to be, my thighs have some more cellulite and my foot has grown a size. I could go to the gym and get on a diet and measure myself against celebs and insta models and be miserable or, I can buy beautiful, flowy tunics and high-waisted pants, grab spanx when I feel like it and live and be happy.
I like option 2 much better. I have to love me at all my sizes. Besides my butt still looks really good in a pair of jeans.
Happy Shopping!
Your Friend,
The Fabulous Shoe Maven
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