"Beauty Should Not Cause Pain"

One of the sweetest and most beautiful young ladies I know made this video for a project in her school. And as a survivor of anorexia, I feel like this video needs to be shown to as many young girls and women as possible. It's sad to think that so many girls and women around the world are struggling daily to reach what the media has told us about how the "ideal women" should look; big boobs, flawless skin, blond hair, tall, tan, super skinny, and basically in every way possible, the embodiment of "perfection". And how horrible is it that there are TV shows like "Toddlers and Tiaras" which shows how women are essentially abusing their little girls and making them dress up like hookers, caking their adorable little angel faces with tons of make-up. It makes me sick. It just goes to show how twisted our society is and how it has warped our minds into believing that in order to be popular, in order to get men to like you, and in order to be successful in life, you have to look a certain way and achieve a certain standard of "beauty" and "perfection". I will admit, I still have days where I look in the mirror and all I see is ugliness; all I see is a fat girl who will never find happiness unless she looks like all those models on TV and in the magazines. But I'm learning to overcome that, day by day. It's not an overnight process; it's a lifelong process. Anyway, enjoy the video and share it with every girl you know, because every girl needs to know she's beautiful.