I enjoy dressing up and being told my hair looks good and catching a glimpse of myself in a mirrored store front and liking what I see. Whether or not that makes me vain is up to you. Recently, I divulged to a friend that I had undergone a cosmetic procedure several years ago, a secret […]
When people talk about the way my daughter is “built,” how beautiful she is, it makes me afraid for her. Will she grow up to think that really matters? I am the mother of a daughter. If I think about this long enough, it terrifies me. How will I help her navigate a world that […]
When an icon like Jennifer Aniston laments that a perfectly healthy, thin body is too heavy for her liking, we, as a society, have a problem. Accepting my body has never been easy for me. Even at my smallest, I saw what I believed were imperfections: the dimpling on my right hip, the skin that […]
