OPINION

When did being a size zero, having long hair, or being “light skin” make you beautiful? We see it all the time on social media and television. I’m sure no one meant for it to be like that but no one has spoken up about it being wrong either. For the ones that don’t fit that description, they can be looked at as not pretty enough, not skinny enough or just not worth a glance. We as people have created stereotypes of what we accept as beautiful and sexy but we’ve forgotten that everyone was made beautifully in their own way.

We all come in different shapes, sizes, and skin tones but that is not what makes us. Social media portrays women as a trophies or sexual objects which makes the world have a need to create an image of what a woman needs to look and act like. The women that do not fit the description, like myself, can feel like less of woman, unattractive, too fat, bald headed, and so on. We compare ourselves to others and do things like exercising and starving ourselves to death to make sure that we fit the image the world expects us to be, but that is wrong, completely wrong.

We need to start loving ourselves the way we are. You don’t have to be a size zero to be cute. You can be petite or what i like to call “slim thick” and still get you a man girl. You can flaunt your pixie cuts and short bobs. You can be a dark skin female and parade your melanin around because YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. It is time out for letting the world make you think that you are not enough. You do not need to fix what God has already put his paint brush on. Instead, we are going to embrace ourselves and encourage the next female to do the same, and grab a Big Mac and a large fries to go along with it! It is time to love yourself.