This post is actually by Emily, but she hasn't had time to post it - she's writing her Masters' Dissertation at the moment! Wish her luck!

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I don’t think us girls will ever be completely happy with our bodies. There will always be something that we want to change. So I decided that this month I’d tell you about my battles to feel beautiful.

I was remembering a (drunken) conversation with a girlfriend one night in a bar in London. We both decided that our chests were the one part of our bodies that we would change. But for totally different reasons. I am completely flat-chested. (Padded bras have been my best friend since... forever!) She – on the other hand – is much more blessed in the boob department. However, whilst I would like to be slightly fuller, she would like to be a little less buxom!

I think the first step to being happy with what you’ve got, is to accept it. I accepted a long time ago that unless I wanted to go under the knife – and nothing would ever induce me to do that – I would have to accept that I was not going to ever have any real cleavage. So instead, I learnt to love my (non-existent) boobs and even to see the plus points of my small chest:

I can wear relatively low tops and still look respectable during the day – even to work.

Loose tops and dresses work without having to be cinched in because they fall easily over my chest and still cling into my waist.

Running and swimming aren’t too much effort (or at least only in the sense that they are exercise and I don’t do that!).

I can easily and happily go braless and not worry about sagging.

As I get older, no sagging worries in that department!

The whole way through high school I was the girl that none of the boys ever looked at and always felt self-conscious. Everyone takes time to grow into their bodies – it might happen in your teens but it might as easily happen in your 20s.

I just know that once you start to love your body and learn how to dress it to its advantage, that is when the real trouble starts. If you thought looking in the mirror was a pain, you have never felt the pain of a credit card bill in one hand and your payslip in the other and the horrible realisation that one is much bigger than the other and it is not the way around it should be!!

Be happy. Go shopping!!