Hi guys! Firstly I wanted to start with a huge thank you to everyone who gave me feedback, shared and liked my first post! I had such a lovely response from everyone about this blog that it has made me even more determined to make this a success. :)
I have written a huge list of topics that I want to cover on this blog so I can post once a week and I might even venture into making some video blogs! So enough of the rambling lets get down to business!
Today I want to share with you a video and photos that I have seen on the internet that will hopefully make you rethink how you see yourself and others! To start off with there is a video from Dove that I saw two days ago that gave me the inspiration for this blog post. The video starts with women stood at a door way, looking up then a voice says "It was my choice." It carries on to show people swapping signs over door ways to "Beautiful" and "Average" in many different countries around the world. I don't think that it will be a surprise to many people which door way was used more but here is the video:
I have written a huge list of topics that I want to cover on this blog so I can post once a week and I might even venture into making some video blogs! So enough of the rambling lets get down to business!
Today I want to share with you a video and photos that I have seen on the internet that will hopefully make you rethink how you see yourself and others! To start off with there is a video from Dove that I saw two days ago that gave me the inspiration for this blog post. The video starts with women stood at a door way, looking up then a voice says "It was my choice." It carries on to show people swapping signs over door ways to "Beautiful" and "Average" in many different countries around the world. I don't think that it will be a surprise to many people which door way was used more but here is the video:
I thought about how such a simple act of walking through a door could cause women to stop and think and in some cases to even walk away from the doors. The women where content in calling themselves average because they didn't want to seem big headed or that is genuinely how they saw themselves. Personally I would choose the beautiful door every time! Why shouldn't everyone know that I am happy with who I am and should it just be what's on the outside that makes a person beautiful or what it is in the inside as well?! As a generation we have a growing concern about how other people see us and more disturbingly we care now more than ever about what strangers think about us! Just think about that ..... We care about the opinion of someone that doesn't know us as an individual and doesn't know our life stories. They know nothing about us yet we are willing to care about how they see us! I wont lie to you I am guilty of doing this because it seems to become a habit but in the last couple of years I have been caring less and loving myself more! Throughout school I hated who I was because I cared what bullies said about me and I cared what everyone else thought. I had to deal with people judging me as a person without them actually knowing me at all and this was something extremely difficult to deal with. One day I realised I had my family and a great group of friends that knew me as a person and loved me just the way I am! I had also developed a thick skin to nasty comments from a life time of having them because honestly it was just silly! I still and always will have the odd moron shouting "FATTY" at me but to be honest I find it a little funny now! Surely it is a little bit obvious that I am a bigger person so what kind of idiot does it take to point out the obvious like I don't know how I look! What shocks people even more is that I have the confidence to turn around and say something like "wooow you are such a clever person would you like a gold star for your observations." I never know what is funnier the fact that the person shouting out the nasty comments is stunned into silence or the little old ladies doing little fist bumps in support of my comeback. The thing is I want all women to love who they are because no matter what anyone thinks who has the right to tell you that you aren't beautiful? Absolutely bloody nobody thats who! You are beautiful in your own ways!
To prove this and finish of this post I want to leave you with showing this amazing plus sized model called Tess Holliday! She is hands down one of the most beautiful models I have seen and incidentally the first plus sized model to be signed with an agency! She is sized 22 and she absolutely loves who she is, how she looks and what she does! This woman inspires me every single day to just love who I am and be unapologetic for it! I really wish all women could love themselves and instead celebrate how strong we are as a sex because I think we are all capable of doing so! It's just some women need an extra push in the right direction to do so!
So ladies feast your eyes on the beauty that is Tess Holliday!!!
I cannot even cope with how beautiful and confident this woman is! If you want to see even more inspiring an beautiful photos go and check her out on Facebook!! I think that this is a good note to leave you all on and I look forward to posting next week!
Keep on being sassy ladies!!!
Lots of Love,
Katie x
Keep on being sassy ladies!!!
Lots of Love,
Katie x