bikini ready

Random rambles: "Come to the pool tomorrow....it will be fun...we can go swimming"...Insert huge anxious GULP as panic sets in and you question are you ‘bikini’ ready? There's a certain mentality that comes with ANY woman regardless of whether we are fit or 'fat' when it comes to exposing ourselves in a 'non filtered unairbrushed kind of way'....I think that used to be called REAL LIFE before social media ‘edits’ and snap chat filters were introduced!!! For a second set aside the fact that I've walked across the stage wearing what felt like dental floss(note I was in the best aesthetic shape of my life during those points and trained hard for those moments), I'm no different than YOU when it comes to insecurities of one self. You're right if you're thinking 'she has no idea what it's like to be obese....no idea what it's like to have to shop in the speciality stores' but wrong if you think I don't experience the same body image struggles as ALL women do. I know what it's like to be pointed at, stared at, whispered about, ridiculed and berated for being 'bigger'.....I know what it's like to stare at my reflection and hate what I see, to look in the mirror in love with a temporary physique, only to wake up one day and look in the mirror in horror of the other 364 day physique.....but here is what I have come to learn: 1. anybody who needs to be a somebody in YOUR universe doesn't care what you look like....in fact they likely love you for all the very reasons you are thinking they might not...... 2. That good people are attracted to confidence and a smile is the most universally attractive sign of just that... 3. That your presence in this world has nothing to do with the 'weight that you carry' or the 'size that you wear'.....and everything to do with the heart that you share 4. And that those 'critical' eyes only speak if you give them a voice.... So when you question whether you are bikini body ready....step 1: put in a bikini....now you ready girl!!!

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