Our Self Images.

I have for a long time had so many younger girls ask me if they are fat. ” What is up with that?”

This world of ours gives too many younger girls, ladies, and even older people, the false image of the all beautiful. From a small age we are subjected to the images that the magazines, television, advertising,and doll makers, show us as the most beautiful images. For example the Barbie Doll every girl wanted to look like her.  No wonder there are so many cases of bulimia, anorexia, and even suicide plaguing our young people today. It would seem, to be beautiful, you must be thin, blonde, and tall. ”WOW” that leaves me out. “Darn.”

A lady at work said, while talking to a gentleman, and what he said to her made her very sad for the man. He said if you were not blonde, tall, and thin, and stupid, you were not beautiful.   ” Oh my gosh,” it’s not only ladies who are brain washed by the whole perfect image syndrome, but males are too.

I wish to make it clear at  this time, that I am in no way jealous over the image of the perfect person.  I like who I am, and feel sad for those who will always be looking for the perfect image of a person.  Accept the way people are and you will be happy.  We are big, small, fat, thin,  old and young.  We have no feature that is the same as the person next to us, we are all different, in one way or another.  We all have beauty, it’s inside of us or it shines around us, but, we are all beautiful.

Our young people get so many wrong messages from the images we see in magazines, papers, and other vehicles of advertising. At one point in history beauty was the Mona Lisa and Marilyn Monroe.  Women who would now be classed as not so pretty, and over weight.  The ladies who first wore bathing suits on the beach, were of a larger nature, but, they were  beautiful, they were the ultimate girl, the calender girls.  What ever happened to “be who you are”.  To heck with the images we see in advertising. It just makes me sad when a girl of eight years asks if she is fat.      I will always tell a child asking me this question, that they are beautiful in every way, and not to listen to the cruel comments made by others, or the images of magazines, and television.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and alot of our past beauties gained thier fame from the person who seen them as beautiful.  :-)

So, if, a young child should ask you if they are fat, or ugly tell them they are beautiful in many ways, and that body image is not everything.   Let them know they are beautiful.

” Have you helped a young person see the beauty inside them  lately?”