IndexRecognizing our different beauty Embracing what makes you differentLoving myself firstWorks CitedRecognizing our different beauty Beautiful me, I hope you read this and believe me... Your stretch marks don't make you ugly. Your height does not make you unattractive. I know you've been hard on yourself. The way you talk about yourself is not something you would repeat out loud for people to hear. Your body loves you and you need to love it back. Your curves are where they should be and there is nothing shameful about you. Keep trying every single day to love yourself. It starts with trusting YOU, loving YOU, and being YOU. This reminds you that you deserve a life without hating yourself. Love from the person who will always love you and believe in you, Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay. Fat back, today I see you peeking over my bra, but don't worry. I will choose to love you. And by my thick thighs you are so sexy that you can't stop touching each other. All right. I will hold you and hug you. Oh, and cellulite, I didn't forget about you either. I will choose to worship you even if you want to take control of my entire lower half, but you are a part of me and I love you no matter what. I felt a sense of freedom once I realized that I would never fit into the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit into. I'm different and I'm okay with that. Rolls, curves, cellulite, everything. I love every part of me. Embracing what makes you different I constantly put myself down when I could rather get back up and make myself feel amazing, which I should be doing. Just like in the short film Dove Real Beauty Sketches, the women had the opportunity to describe themselves to a sketcher in any way they wanted, yet they all chose to find the flaws in their faces. However, when a complete stranger describes them, he only describes the beauty of their faces. The outcome of the two sketches is completely different. The sketch that was drawn when the women described themselves turned out to be horrible and looked nothing like her. The sketch drawn by the stranger? Well, she described the women as beautiful and they looked almost exactly like her. I did the same experiment. I wrote how I would describe myself if I had to describe my appearance to a designer. I have a round face and small eyes. My nose looks flattened and is not big but not small either. I have thick, square eyebrows, long eyelashes and a chin that juts outwards. I have very distinct cheekbones, my upper lip is small but my lower lip is large. I absolutely hate my smile because it's crooked, my teeth are small and my face is always red. I asked a stranger to describe me and didn't tell him why. They said I have big honey brown eyes that have a nice shape and long eyelashes. I have a symmetrically tanned face with glowing rosy cheeks and perfectly shaped eyebrows. I have long, thick black hair that curls into perfect spring ringlets. By doing this I realized how much I belittle myself and how I find everything bad that has to do with my appearance but I don't look at myself in a positive light. Both women and men don't realize how beautiful they really are. Each of us is beautiful in one way or another and we need to start realizing that. We need to start accepting the glorious mess that we are and not try to change ourselves. Loving Myself First I'm at a point in my life where I realize I have to love myself before anyone else can love me. I stopped allowing the negativity of others to overwhelm me. I'm taking control of my life and everything. 85-101.