To all the big women out there... YOU'RE ALLOWED TO FEEL SEXY TOO!

Big women are allowed to feel beautiful and sexy too. It hurts that society made me grow up believing that only skinny women are sexy. It hurts that society made me believe that I was not and could not be beautiful because of my size and skin conditions. Growing up, I was always the fat friend. It bothered me a lot, so I would always cover up and put on baggy clothes. I would never show any of my skin because I didn't want people to see how big I really was or for people to see my skin conditions that started to develop when I was fifteen (kids can be mean when you're a kid). I never felt pretty or beautiful. I always felt so self conscious when I was out with or around my friends because they were all skinnier than me and all seemed to have such amazing confidence, something that I seriously lacked as a teen. Why couldn't I just embrace the body I was given and love me for me? Society made me believe that I had to have a small waist and perfect smooth skin to be classed as beautiful and I fully believed that.

I was so wrong to believe that. I am allowed to feel sexy in the body I have been given, regardless of my weight and skin conditions. My body is my home and I am allowed to love my body. Show yourself some love. Put on that sexy underwear, look in the mirror, take pictures, learn your body and learn to love yourself. You are beautiful. You are worthy of love.