On Tuesday night when I was wasting time on Snapchat, I clicked on DailyMail.com and flipped through their story until I came across a post titled "Rise of the Ribcage Cult". My instant reaction was fury as I looked at these photos of models bent into impossible positions in a way that shows off their ribs and hips, emphasizing their stick-thinness.

In the comments section, it was briefly mentioned that this attention on being so thin can be a problem and is something that many body image advocates discourage from being posted on social media, but they didn't really talk about what this new craze really means and why it's such a problem trend in our society.

The fury that I originally felt while reading this article was soon replaced by a sick feeling in my stomach, and here's why:

Throughout my entire life, I've been on the thinner side of the scale, especially as a young child. But once I hit puberty, I gained quite a bit of weight and didn't know what to do with the curves and chubbiness that I now encountered on a daily basis. This made me incredibly uncomfortable with myself and who I was becoming.

One of my close family members who struggles with obesity started making comments about what I was eating, the calories that were in what I was eating, and how much I was eating, which led to me be even more self-consciousness about my body. I eventually lost the weight when I started high school and over the course of 4 months, I lost about 30 pounds. Part of the weight loss was achieved the healthy way with better eating habits and more exercise, but some of it, not so much.

This weight loss came with an increase in attention that people gave to my body and how I looked, and if I had a nickel for every time I heard one of the following phrases I would be able to pay my college tuition bills for the rest of my life –

"Wow, you lost so much weight."

"You're so thin!"

"You look so good."

"Look at how tiny your waist is."

"I love your curves."

"I wish I had your body."

These are the comments that I received then and still continue to receive from people I know at church, friends, family, and even from people I barely know; I hate it.

This "Rib Cage Craze" hits really close to home, because after I lost all of the weight my ribs and hip bones started to become more apparent, and it's one of my major insecurities about my body now, specifically with the way that my ribs look, and it probably will be for the rest of my life. I rarely wear crop tops, and when I do they're ones that come down longer, and if I go swimming in a bikini I spend most of my time with my arms crossed over my stomach.

On the article on the DailyMail.com, they showed various models in different poses on Instagram showing off their "Bikini Bridge" and "Rib Cage," so I decided to see if I could take a picture that mimicked one of Rita Ora's, and below is a side by side comparison of one of the pictures that I took.

And you know what, I was able to position myself in a way that did show both of those things off–but it's easy for hip bones and ribs to be highly visible when you're laying down.

This is one of the reasons that the idealization of being so skinny to show your rib cage is really concerning to me. Because I'm 5'4" with a wider rib cage and hips but fairly narrow shoulders, if I were to fully fill out my bone structure I would go back to being overweight and unhealthy. But most people don't think of that, and just wish that they were small. Even my own sisters have told me that they wish they were my size because each of their bodies are incredibly different. For my sisters to look at me and wish that they looked like me makes me upset because they're all so unique and beautiful.

But if we continue to increase the expectations that society has for the way that women look, we are going to become a society that is doomed forever to have a negative body image and more self-hatred with every generation as the years continue.

My body isn't perfect. I have extra fat on my hips and thighs, little rolls in my stomach when I sit down, stretch marks and scars, but you know what? That's okay. These are few of the things that make me who I am and I'm slowly learning to love those things.

I'm a 19-year-old college student who loves watching "Supernatural", "Studio Ghibli", and reading all day on a rainy Saturday afternoon, who wears bright lipstick on days where I'm feeling a little down and want the attention to be focused there and not anywhere else, but most of all, I'm human–just like you.