Yes, I'm "thick" and yes, I'm happy.
Growing up, I was always the "fat friend" and I was always subconscious of my weight. I never wore tight clothes and I hid in sweatshirts that were two sizes too big. I thought that because I was a woman it wasn't okay to like how I looked. No one I was friends with and no one in my family was confident in their appearance, everyone was dieting or working out and I thought that in order to be happy and healthy I had to do that too. I thought that I had to starve myself and work out every day and be a size zero in order for me to like how I looked, well, I was wrong.
After depriving myself of carbs and working out every day and then eating myself into a coma time and time again, I finally learned that it's okay to love my curves. I may not be a size 0, hell I'm not even a size two, but that's alright. I may be slightly overweight and that might not be healthy, but I'm happy. I'm happy no matter my size. It's okay to be a woman and to love your body and to want to show it off.
Everyone has cellulite. Everyone has stretch marks, and you're lying to yourself if you don't think this is true. I'm done hiding my body in oversized hoodies and sweatpants, because what is there to hide? My body is my body and I'm going to love it.
Being body positive is so important as a woman because so many women grow up like I did where they're afraid to love their body because they think it's not okay. They think that wanting to show it off means that they're over sexualizing their bodies, when it's really just a celebration. Wear your teeny bikini bottoms because you're proud of your "fat ass," just be PROUD of the body that you have because someone out there would kill to have it.
We're all born different shapes and sizes. Some of us are naturally thin and that's awesome, some of us have a natural weight of 150 lbs and that's awesome too. All bodies are beautiful as long as the person in that body believes so. Confidence is the sexiest thing a person can wear, no matter how corny that sounds.
Love your body and own it. Be proud. And as Drake once said, "know yourself, know your worth" because you're worth a hell of a lot more than you think you are.
