Being a girl is hard. Especially today, living in a world of unrealistic expectations, rampant eating disorders, bullying, and peer pressure. We are constantly reminded of what the media thinks we should look like from the heavily Photoshopped images we see plastered on our tv screens, magazines, bus shelters and billboards. There is virtually no escaping it.

every girl is beautiful. sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

As a girl who grew up with major self image issues, and a woman who continually struggles with feelings of not being good enough, I was absolutely appalled when this graphic showed up in my Instagram feed today.

After I threw up a little, I was outraged. Outraged at the message, outraged at the people who liked it, outraged at the person who wrote it, but most of all I was outraged that my young daughter has to live in a world with messages like this.

Every girl is beautiful. PERIOD.

Everyone is beautiful. PERIOD.

We are all unique and beautiful and this fact alone should be celebrated. No “right guy” should ever be responsible for discovering one’s own beauty.

I will teach my daughter that beauty is not just to be seen, but to be felt, experienced, shared and embraced. Beauty comes from within and is a quality that we all possess.

Beauty is not just skin deep, and does not just take the right guy to see it.

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Sarah is the busy full time working mom of two amazing but busy kids. Her blog chronicles her heavily caffeinated (mis)adventures in healthy & creative bento making, motherhood, product reviews, DIY crafts & more!

8 Comments

  1. I love love love this post so much that my Monday Blog will link back to it.

    Beautifully said. I think sometimes people latch onto the cliche and run with it — that little message from Instagram is one example.

    I love that you corrected the skewed sight picture.

    Heather @ Exalted Peacock

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