Today I watched a link from Dove, it was about a forensic artist who sat behind a curtain and asked women to describe their faces and he would draw them. Then he asked another person who they had got to know to describe the same woman. (not once did the artist ever see the woman’s face)
It saddened me to see women describing themselves in such a negative way. At what point did women start to be so critical and so judgemental of our bodies and our looks.
When the women were shown the two drawings, it was blatantly obvious that the one they described about themselves was not as beautiful as the one the stranger had described.
WHY ARE WE SO CRITICAL?
I am just as bad as any other woman. I constantly criticise the way I look, how I dress, what I eat, how much I exercise, my hair, my thighs, and the list goes on. But at what point do we realise that other people might not see you that way.
I am terrible at accepting any compliment, whether it is from a friend, a family member or even a stranger. When did I start thinking this way, I have no idea.
But what I do know is that I want Miss A to love her body, to embrace everything about herself. I want her to accept herself the way she is and be happy to be proud of the way she looks. I don’t want her to grow up thinking that she should change or be critical of herself. That is too much of a burden for any young woman to have.
I don’t want my 15 year old daughter to question if her thighs are too big, or if chicken or fish has less calories. I want Miss A to have a healthy relationship with food, where she is happy to eat everything in a healthy way. To eat chocolate if she loves it, to drink full cream milk because she loves the flavour.
I once read that a beautiful woman is a confident woman. Well…..
I challenge myself (and you too) to stop every day for the next week and make one positive comment about how you look or about your body. Say something positive, mean it, embrace it and see if it changes the way you present yourself to the world.
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