Love the Skin you're in

How many times have you been encouraged to love yourself first before you can love someone else? You've also been told that it's what's inside that counts, the outward appearance is only a vessel. The motivation speech can go on and on for miles - most of the times it is coming from someone who is drop dead gorgeous, probably has the 'perfect life' in your eyes and on top of it has perfect skin and has a 26 inches waist with a 42 inches ass with the perfect job and relationship. Imagine you, struggling with some low self confidence and have this person trying to motivate you.

Oh wow :/

At the same time, here we have studies saying that women with muffin tops and men with big bellies are prone to dying earlier and need to get their BMI down due to the risk of heart disease.

Society has engraved in our heads that we are to look a certain way, behave in a particular manner and be successful all at once. So, if we're to love who we are, does being fat and out of shape being someone else?

Jennifer Hudson was a very plump girl with a powerful voice that brought her to fame - not by placing first in American Idol, but by being herself. That voice, along with her personality, got her her first Grammy award for her self titled R&B album in 2009. She also won an award for best supporting role in the hit 'Dream girls'. Jennifer is on a role... but wait, she's almost unrecognizable from before... she's slowly disappearing off the radar.

Her story is that she is doing this for her and her health and she would like to live long enough to see her family grow.

Her husband is not too keen on this look, but does he have a say in it for her to stay fat because he prefers it? Would she still be getting all this attention if she had stayed at that weight? She is the face for 'Weight Watchers', where she's been able to lose all this weight and suddenly look this fab and glamorous.

If she's loving the skin she's in, would society have gotten through to her to lose weight at a tender age of twenty-something? Wouldn't she still appreciate herself no matter what society continues to dish out and feed her?

We see the pressure surround us daily - look at Susan Doyle from 'Britain's got Talent'; she came on as the perfect sensay fowl and now is slowly transforming from an ugly, unsightly duckling to a swan.

Is the statment 'love yourself no matter what' overrated?

When you hear that motivational speech and then get the opposite from magazines and people who think they know what's best for you, no wonder these people turn out psychologically imbalanced.

I stand true

the original DivaKnockoff

xoxo