(wo)man in the mirror

Well goodmorning loves :)

First ii want to say thank u for the twitter love I've been gettin from various people (and a few organizations believe it or not =D)
Its very much appriciated guys n gyals :-* besos.

Anywho this morning ii wanted to talk about body image. Why? Because my little sister came up to me and told me she needs to go on a diet with me.
Those of you who know kaila know that this littlw girl is no ones type of fat. Those of yoou who don't ill discribe her. My little sister ( who is 8 btw ) is about 4 foot 5 and weighs no more than 60 lbs she's very active ( too active) and she wears a xs or s dependin oin the brand of clothes.
Now the fact that my baby sister wants to diet with me maybe cute to some people cuz your like "awwww she wants to be like her big sister" NEGATIVE ! She might want to be like me in some aspects but not this one.
Unfourtunately my little sister has a very distorted veiw of reality when it come to her body image as do many other FEMALES.
(Nice lil segway right right lol)

I have never been small a day in my life. Never wore a size 6 infact the last time ii wore a single digit size ii must have been in the 5th grade. I loved myself I was very comfertable in my skin, however when ii got into 4th grade my father started pushing excercise on me ... ii didn't want to do it AT ALL. I thought ii was fine the way ii was.
Then as I got a little older my dr (Dr. Fink and Dr. Obselom [sp?]) Started pressing me about my weight. I didn't see the problem yea ii was a little thicker than some of the other girls ii had more curves ( ii had a c cup by 6th grade ) but ii could run around and more than keep up with them in the school yard.
I could go year by year about how ii gained weight but it all ends the same ... I felt great. But as ii entered hs ( The Mary Louis Academy thank you :) ) ii noticed there were girls with boobs just as big as mine hips just as wide and buts jus as big BUT super super flat stomachs and much smaller thighs than mine.
This is where my battle with body image began. In my 4 years of hs ii was anorexic, ii was buliemic, ii took diet pills , you name it ii tried it. I knew it wasn't healthy but ii wanted to b one of those girls that guys tried to talk to EVERYWHERE ii went.
I wasn't satisfied with being average ii wanted my appearance to blow minds.
Now I'm not going to blame society for my "issues" however ii think it plays an important role in young girls self esteem.
When all our little girls have to veiw as beauty is a size 2 woman and a super slim girl they are conditioned to believe that that is the ideal idea of beauty.
Now don't get me wrong there is nothing with being slim especially if you are natuarally that way but ii truly believe that we need females of different body types and sizes to accurately represent beauty.
Now on the flip side I'm not sayin to be huge and odious n rotound bc we all know that there is a point where the fat becomes unhealthy.
But if we as a society would find a healthy balance between what they deem as fat and beautiful we could eliminate a lot of the issues both health wise n mental that a lot of women n girls have.
An 8 year old girl should not be upset because she does not look like miley cyrus just as a woman should not be upset because she doesn't look like hiedi klum or niki minaj. Honestlii don't you think it would be a really boring world if we all looked alike.
Today ii pose a challenge for everyone to be happy with the man or woman in the mirror and for us to teach our children that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes (and complections) and its ok to be different in that sense
Ill be back later ii need to go tell myself how amazing ii look today 40 lbs over weight and all :)

... And that's the way the cookies crumbles :):)