Believe me, I'm all for the positive body image campaigns. Here's the thing, though, lately I've been seeing all these things that are promoting only women who are a little on the chunky side. Promoting these women is not a bad thing. Don't get me wrong, I think these women are beautiful too. What bothers me isn't these campaigns. It's when they seem to start neglecting the importance of everyone being beautiful.

God made us. That fact alone should be enough, but it's not. I'll be brutally honest with you guys, I struggle with it too. Our society has made us so dependent on what others think, it's not even funny. What we need to remember is that God made us beautiful, no matter what we look like.

We need to be promoting a positive body image for those of us who have a little more around the hips, but we also need to be promoting a positive body image for women who don't. There are women who have grown up being made fun of for some aspect of their physique, myself included. I've been told I'm too skinny or that I'm too tall, and that's not okay. I've seen others insulted by being told they were too short or too heavy. That's not okay either. There are so many body types out there, and it's like we can only escape bigotry if we fit the perfect Barbie Doll mold.

The thing is, no one fits that mold. Professional models and movie stars have their pictures have their pictures photo-shopped without them even knowing. How would you feel if someone photo-shopped a picture of you to change some aspect of how you looked without your consent? For example, Jennifer Lawrence is really big on the whole positive body image thing, but even she has experienced this bias. No one can escape this judgement but society still expects us to try and fit that mold. That's why plastic surgery became so popular. People didn't want to be made fun of anymore, so they tried to fit into that mold, and now they're being judged for trying to fit into that mold. It's like we can't win.

There is hope. God made you beautiful. No matter what body type you fall into, you are beautiful. I am a tall woman, and I'm okay with that. Some of my best friends are a literal foot shorter than me, and that's okay. It just means that they can help me reach the stuff closer to the floor and I can help them reach stuff that's too high up. It's a win-win situation. What's important is knowing that God made you a specific way on purpose. He made sure that you got specific genes on purpose. Psalm 139:13-14 says, "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." He knew what he was doing when he made you, so don't worry about it.

When it gets hard to remember this, hang out with friends, read Psalm 139:13-14 again, pray, or do whatever it takes to remind you that God knew what he was doing when he made you. You are beautiful the way you are. Stop saying that just one body type is beautiful when everyone is, because if you start saying that only one body type is beautiful, you are buying into this world's view. You stop looking at the beauty and wonder of God's creation and start seeing it through the world's eyes. You start adding to the pain that women experience on a regular basis in relation to what they look like. Remember: God made you, so that means you're beautiful and so is the person next to you.