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Diverse Body's Exist

Don't apologize for the amount of space that you take up

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Diverse Body's Exist

It's okay to have a diverse body. It is okay to be fat, it's beautiful to be fat. There is nothing inherently wrong with fatness, and in fact, the average woman in the United States is a size 16. However, being fat is stigmatized. Having a diverse body is stigmatized. People like to believe that they can tell what a person's health is just from the way that they look. Of course you can't tell a person's healthy by just looking at them but our society has come to associate fat with being unhealthy and that's not always the case. And, some fat people aren't healthy but that doesn't make being fat any less okay.

Sure it's important to try to maintain a healthy lifestyle, whether that be skinny or fat or anywhere in between, but it doesn't make you a terrible person if you just don't. Your purpose in life is not to lose weight.

Learning to love yourself is hard, you have to unlearn the natural want to compare yourself to others. You have to recognize the ways your body is unique and be kind to it. And honestly, fuck beauty standards, unflattering is okay. Your purpose in life is not to be flattering.

Society has warped ideals of what is healthy, beautiful, sexy, etc. Fat people have always had to rise above it all, prove ourselves. Meanwhile goddesses have rolls and curves and love to eat and they are no more gorgeous than you or me. I'm not saying men don't also struggle with this, masculine people do have standards to live up to and I recognize this and plus size men and men with diverse bodies are no less handsome than any other men. No less worthy.

Embracing my belly, my cellulite and stretch marks was one of the best things that I could've ever done. And it wasn't easy. Being plus size is never easy, loving yourself is never easy.

But you know what? It's okay to take up space. Don't apologize for the amount of space you take up. I have a tendency to try to make myself smaller but why? It's okay to be big. I should own every part of me, and so should you.

You can do anything no matter what size you are, and you can take everyone's breath away because you're larger than life and stunning in ever sense.

Being plus size, fat or chubby or squishy in places, is okay. You don't owe anyone anything. You're still hot. Still beautiful. Still sexy. Double chins are natural, jiggling thighs aren't anything to be ashamed of.

Being what society wants you to be is boring, you only get one body, so love it no matter what. Take care of it. Treat it right and feel confident and the rest will come.

I didn't mean to get inspirational, I mean to offend those who think fat is bad or that people aren't complete until they're thin. That's not true. All bodies are built differently, and they're all valid. You're close minded and I wear crop tops to offend you. My size is not an indicator of what I can and cannot do, what I can and cannot wear.

Don't feel bad about eating that pizza, please. You're allowed to have that third piece and not feel guilty. Take no shit and own every perfect inch of your body.

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