I was 13 years old and I remember creeping into my mums room to tear up a photo she took of me a week before. I had sleepless nights knowing it existed because, after all, it was just MORE concrete evidence of how ugly I was! It was evidence that the "mean girls" in my school were right! I was ridiculed and called concord for how big my nose was. I was mocked for how flat my chest was. They called me Goofy for my buck teeth. So the laaaaaast thing I wanted was for the photo to be lying around!
This was 1992, and I would cry myself to sleep wishing I was different. Wishing I looked and was as pretty as the celebrity models...
Cut to 33 years later (& 20 years of building my confidence), and let me tell you something:
I love my nose. It's mine, it’s bold, and it makes a statement.
I celebrate my small boobs, because let’s be real, no bra in your 40s is an actual superpower 😉
And those buck teeth? Fixed them. But the real fix was how I saw myself.
Confidence isn’t built overnight. But it is built.
And every time you choose self-love over shame, you're laying another brick.
You don’t need to change who you are.
You need to learn to OWN who you are. Fully, loudly, and without apology!!!
Lisa Bilyeu
I was 13 years old and I remember creeping into my mums room to tear up a photo she took of me a week before. I had sleepless nights knowing it existed because, after all, it was just MORE concrete evidence of how ugly I was! It was evidence that the "mean girls" in my school were right! I was ridiculed and called concord for how big my nose was. I was mocked for how flat my chest was. They called me Goofy for my buck teeth. So the laaaaaast thing I wanted was for the photo to be lying around!
This was 1992, and I would cry myself to sleep wishing I was different. Wishing I looked and was as pretty as the celebrity models...
Cut to 33 years later (& 20 years of building my confidence), and let me tell you something:
I love my nose. It's mine, it’s bold, and it makes a statement.
I celebrate my small boobs, because let’s be real, no bra in your 40s is an actual superpower 😉
And those buck teeth? Fixed them. But the real fix was how I saw myself.
Confidence isn’t built overnight. But it is built.
And every time you choose self-love over shame, you're laying another brick.
You don’t need to change who you are.
You need to learn to OWN who you are. Fully, loudly, and without apology!!!
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