I'm taking care of BSB for the next few day's while Amy is lucky enough to be at London Fashion Week. Her task for me was to find two guest bloggers, the first of which is for today. I'm lucky enough to know the brilliant Alli Denehy of What Alli Thinks, she bravely agreed to talk about how she viewed her own body as a growing teen and how things have changed.
Being a teenager is supposed to be the best time of your life. You are believed to become an individual. Your body grows in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways that we just can’t help. It’s how we are supposed to be.
Recently I stumbled upon this picture when looking for underwear online and it’s transformed my opinion of plus size women. I’ve always thought I’d have to hide away under my clothes, not show off anything because I had convinced myself that no one would want to look at me. I thought they would be disgusted and appalled by it. Well I was wrong, I have now found a pair of and I’m not afraid to show off my curves.
Fashion and style is all about you feeling comfortable with yourself. Not what everyone else is doing or wearing. Do what you want to do because people will love you more for being yourself then being one of the many clones.
Whatever day of the week it is you should feel in love with yourself. Self confidence will get you so far in life.
- 1. Write a list of three things you hate about yourself. Even if it just the way your hair flicks out the wrong way at the end to the way your hips stick out. Mine would be these...
- - My thighs and the fact I have to wear size 16 trousers because of them
- - Broad shoulders, halter tops are a no-no in my eyes.
- - In between size feet, I can never find shoes to fit.
- 2. Now you have you have this piece of paper, rip it into a million pieces. You don’t need to write anything down about what you hate, your all amazing, even with these “hang-ups”
- 3. Put on your favourite outfit, dresses, shorts, skirts- anything that will show you and your beautiful selves off. Mines this dress. It shows off my curviness and my legs which if I’m honest I love about myself. I love them even more when wearing a pair of heels for a night out.
- 4. This last step is the most important of them all. Go out. Get all your friends round and do it together, have a bottle of wine, write the silly lists and rip them up, get ready for a night out and then all together go show yourselves off, there is no point hiding behind closed doors. Who’s going to see you then?
What is the point of this exercise I hear you ask? Well it’s to prove you can all are beautiful no matter if you have wide hips, small breasts, flicky hair, bad skin. We are all perfect and we don’t need to be clones to prove it. Individuality is the key to life and don’t let anyone tell you different.
As a teenager we are always going to hate the way we look all because we want to look like the latest celebrities and follow the latest trends. I’m constantly worrying. It’s normal. Every person in existence is going to worry about the way they look once in their teenage years. We always have these niggles that something’s wrong .Nothing is wrong, everyone is their own being.
and as the song goes It's my life It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive. Live how you want to live, look how you want to look.
I do this. Whenever I'm feeling kinda depressed about my body (ie the lack of breasts along with the short celulitey legs) I put on some of my favourite dresses & shoes and strut round the bedroom. I'll catchsite of myself in the mirror, and just smile. It so works!