Rail thin? Pah-lease.
If there is one thing that gets under my skin more than most things, it would be girls talking about how "fat and not cute" they are. I swear, if I see one more picture caption of a size three girl talking about how fat she is, I'm going to scream! Get over yourselves! You can stop fishing for compliments now! And the ones who really get me are the girls who plaster ten pounds of makeup on their faces, slap on some false eyelashes, & spend two hours making their hair just right, then caption their photos with, "I'm not cute at all." Give me a break!!! You obviously think that you're adorable if you go through all of that work to transform yourself into Glamour Barbie! It's ok if a girl has self-esteem issues or if a girl is self-conscious about the way she looks sometimes. I feel that way a lot to tell you the truth! And when I'm in that kind of mood, there's nothing that makes me feel worse than a knock out girl saying she's ugly, then 237 comments underneath describing how wonderful she is. It's ok to have self confidence! There's no need to dumb that confidence down so that others will either, A) think that you're being humble, or B) sympathize with you by giving you a mountain of compliments to feed your giant ego. YOU'RE NOT FAT!!!! You're not, and you know it!
Did you know that there are websites dedicated to encouraging 98 lb girls to lose weight? To be skinnier? To be prettier? It's one thing to have a problem of your own that you need help for, but it's another thing for random strangers to support that habit by telling you to keep losing weight. My aunt, who lives in Florida, has suffered from both anorexia and bulimia since she was a teenager. She genuinely was, and still is, very sick, and she still struggles with her relationship with food on a daily basis. She's lost most of her teeth, can no longer have children, and still looks completely skeletal. When she was a young girl, she was beautiful! She was so gorgeous inside and out, yet she couldn't see it. Her illness clouded her vision of what she really looked like and made her believe that she was something that she wasn't. She will now struggle every day, probably for the rest of her life, just to feel normal. This is what you girls, who have no illness at all, are supporting when you plaster all over the internet how "overweight" or "ugly" you think you are. Take one for the team, and for yourself, and maybe write, "I think that I look pretty in this photo," or "I really like how I look here," in your photo captions rather than something negative.
It's sad that the pressure to be rail-thin has jumped off of televisions, magazines, movies, etc. for so long now that many of us are now believing that it's life's necessity to look like a runway model or our favorite actress. It's seriously gone too far! We women need to combine together and fight the battle against self-doubt and eating disorders. We need to support those who are suffering and try to help them get better, not slap them in the face by having size three girls declare on-line how "fat" they are. If you like something about yourself, say it! If you think that you're beautiful, flaunt it! I'm certainly not saying that we should all turn into conceited, vanity obsessed ladies, but there's nothing wrong with giving yourself a confidence boost every-so-often.
The world is full of picture-perfect mannequins in stores, but the thing about them is that they're mannequins!!! They're not real! They're made out of plastic, and we are not! Don't base yourself off of what they look like. Let's all start a revolution and love our bodies along with every little flaw that they have. I often get self-conscious about my small breasts and the never-ending battle with my complexion, but that doesn't mean that I'm worth any less as a person. It's what makes me real, and I love that! What is it that makes you love yourselves? Think of at least one good thing about yourself, then focus on that thought all day. I promise you'll feel so much better having the confidence that you deserve.