Danielle

I've struggled with body image for a long time, and it's only within the last couple of years that I've started to accept my body and love myself more. I think we all have those days where we say 'I hate my body, I want to look like this or that,' and I dwelled too much on what other people think - like, what does the typical man find attractive and hot? And then the media says 'this is the perfect body,' and I'm just like chopped liver compared to that.⠀
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But I really do love myself and my body, so I need to focus less on what other people think and more on what I think. Even with my partners, what I struggle with is 'would they rather if they could?' Would they rather have that perfect body? I'm secure in my body, but not in what other people think.⠀
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I always want to be thick and curvy. I love having a soft belly. And sometimes when I'm caught up in what other people want me to look like, I just look in the mirror and I'm like, 'Damn, I'm hot!