Breaking body image rules

By: Ana Perez

In general, us women are much more concerned about appearance and insecurities about our body than men are. Ever since I was a little girl I had struggled with my body image, but believe it or not l had no body insecurities until sociality and social media mentioned them.

When l was in 6 grade my classmates used to make fun of me because I had a big forehead.“ your only smart because you have a big forehead” ,” can you do my homework since you have a big ass forehead smarty” “ I bet you know all your family phone numbers huh smarty”, those comments really affect me emotionally because of that specific words, l used to cry in the girls bathroom at launch and after school.

Later on, I realized more insecurities about my body, because of sociality for example my stretch marks on my thighs and dimples on my lower back, I remember I was in 8 grade, l was changing to my PE uniform and a girl just stares at my back for a couple of minutes and I ask her “ Umm yeah, do I have something?”, she had the audacity to say in front of my face “ girl those white lines that you have and those dimples are disturbing and disgusting". I wasn't even hurt, l was just shocked and concerned that my body imperfections and insecurities were ugly and like she said disgusting to society, and since that moment it was a plus insecurity for me. Without mentioning my other insecurities, for example my lips because according to social media and fake friends they look like pennywise when he smiles, hip dips, freckles on my nose and even more.

The reason that i'm exposing my body insecurities is not to get attention from people or is not to get a “ i'm sorry you have to go through that” ,” i'm sorry that you have insecurities'',”im sorry this i'm sorry that'' . because I already have enough of them, and trust me a typical and simple “I'm sorry” does not help. i'm exposing my body insecurities to explain that almost everyone have insecurities and that's ok, that's perfectly fine but we need to remember that our body imperfections does not define who you are, same as religion, disabilities, race, the language you speech, the color of your skin and others.

I'm not perfect like supermodels, and l don't want to be perfect, I don't want a perfect body, l want to be unique, I want to be myself. I want to be known for wants on my mind for my opinions, my decisions, my kindness not for my body imperfections. So let's at least try to be ourselves, to not care what other people are going to say about you, to look in a mirror and see beauty, to dress however you want. Everyone is beautiful and unique in their own way.