Re: help me with easy girl pattern?

Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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I looked like a beached whale or a hippo in drag when I was fat! Like this: http://tinyurl.com/hq8lo
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Kate, I'm glad that losing the weight has made you more comfortable but I hate hearing you speak of yourself at a heavier weight with such loathing. Every day my beautiful daughter is hammered by messages from our sick society that tell her she's not pretty enough, not thin enough, that she has to look a certain way, act a certain way to be worthwhile.

I do the best I can to counteract the poison by rewarding her for being smart, kind, brave, strong, by pointing out the airbrushing, photoshopping, the signs of surgery and augmentation and injection in media images. And, while I also have the usual insecurities about my own body she never sees me standing in front of a mirror poking at myself, speaking hatefully about features that are, in fact, completely normal for a human female.

It may be less personal for you as the mother of a son, but he's still absorbing your attitudes and values and will be applying them to the women and girls around him.

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.co.uk/dsef07/t5.aspx?id=8130

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