I'm sorry for the last comment as I've only been free enough to peek in every now and then, but I totally hear you!

I have a blog in which I told the most horrifying relationship experience I'd ever had. LOL - but I did it to prove to myself that I don't need anyone else to validate that I'm awesome, and a really appreciate that you're doing the same.

I believe that many times larger/large women are told just to "be happy with yourself" or "confident" and that we are expected to just have this solidarity over night - but just as a child learns how to be hateful from its parents, society, and other children - we are taught immediately that we are somehow lesser because we aren't the stereotypically "dainty" female that the masses hold on high pedestals.

It takes A HELLOF A LOT of strength and boldness...which has to be cultivated. I said all that- to say this... You're just 21 and you're way ahead of the game! I was still trying to lose weight to keep a man at that age, and I admire your strength, beauty and realness. I wish you to have awesome results!

Kea
 

I'm sorry for the last comment as I've only been free enough to peek in every now and then, but I totally hear you!

I have a blog in which I told the most horrifying relationship experience I'd ever had. LOL - but I did it to prove to myself that I don't need anyone else to validate that I'm awesome, and a really appreciate that you're doing the same.

I believe that many times larger/large women are told just to "be happy with yourself" or "confident" and that we are expected to just have this solidarity over night - but just as a child learns how to be hateful from its parents, society, and other children - we are taught immediately that we are somehow lesser because we aren't the stereotypically "dainty" female that the masses hold on high pedestals.

It takes A HELLOF A LOT of strength and boldness...which has to be cultivated. I said all that- to say this... You're just 21 and you're way ahead of the game! I was still trying to lose weight to keep a man at that age, and I admire your strength, beauty and realness. I wish you to have awesome results!

Kea