My Body Gallery is a unique website which shows “what real women look like”. You punch in your height, weight and clothing sizes and up pops a photo of a woman who shares your stats, a you are not alone philosophy, and you might be pleasantly surprised by what you see! Today My Body Gallery sent me its email newsletter containing an insightful article by guest author Rebecca Williams who writes:
You’re not going to believe this! This girl just told me that I’m fat! She said that I have frizzy hair and that I need to get a tan.
“You’re too white! I’m pretty sure I can actually see THROUGH you! And your gut! It’s bigger than your rear-end!!”
What? That really hurts. I mean, why would she talk to me like that? Does she hate me? Did I do something wrong? I have to stop this! I need to tell that person that she can’t hurt me like that. YOU can’t make me feel so insignificant and ugly!
So I look in the mirror, and I tell myself to stop.
Isn’t that an uncomfortable dose of reality? On average, women criticize our own bodies about 14 times per day. Ouch! Do you say things to yourself that you would never tolerate from someone else’s lips? The author challenges us to spend the next 30 days saying at least one nice thing to ourselves, about ourselves, every day. Only one! I hope I will do better than that. How about you?
