Disappear

shannonjaeckle:

My friend posted this on her FB today and I thought it was so beautiful I needed to share it.

“This is my butterfly. Every morning I draw a butterfly somewhere on my body. I name it after someone that I love. When I think of my eating disorder, I look at my butterfly. If I cave to the temptations of my eating disorder, I must wash away my butterfly, therefore facing the harsh reality that I have killed it and that, in real life, I could lose the person it was named after, or they could lose me. I have drawn 51 butterflies over 51 days and have not had to wash away a single one.”

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allthehopeswewerefoolishtohope:

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helpmehealthy:

I think the main, horrifying thing about these airbrushed pictures being distributed, is there has been a lot of media hype calling this beautiful girl fat. It’s like, the media refuses to let her be proud of her body. They’ve even changed her face shape, making her almost unrecognisable. We always rant about how airbrushed photos affect us, but imagine how they must affect the people being airbrushed. Imagine feeling super confident and good about yourself after a photo shoot, and then seeing the end result and realising you weren’t good enough for the magazine. It must be crushing.

I remember, when my friend was practising photo shopping, she took a photo of my face and airbrushed it without my permission or even warning me. Personally, I found the un-airbrushed photo of myself more attractive, since it looked like me, but the airbrushed version was so disheartening. She’d changed the shape of my nose, elongated my face and taken out the scars by my eyes and the scar on my chest from my operation. She only did it as light hearted practice for her art exam, but it crushed me. She didn’t realise, and perhaps the photo-editors don’t realise, that by airbrushing out all the little imperfections on my face she made me feel like I wasn’t good enough. The little scars and freckles and the bump in my nose were all things that made me, me, and she took them away.

Similarly, by changing Jennifer Lawrence’s body, they’re telling her that no matter how successful she is, no matter how talented she is, she will not be good enough because of the things about her that make her who she is. 

And I just find that sad. 

Couldn’t have said it better.

She looks so much better in the unaltered version, too.

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lol :)

Congratulations to Jamie for reaching her goal of weighing 140lbs!! Jamie started playing the game (Your Shape on Kinct for X-Box) last May and by playing it 5 times a week for 30 minutes. Her hard work and dedication paid off as she lost a total of 60lbs! 

staypozitive:

But then you go on Tumblr, and you see something different. You see girls buying clothes, cutting their hair, taking laxatives, starving themselves, doing anything to make themselves look thinner. They base their self-worth on a NUMBER projected on a man-made scale. And to be honest with you, it breaks my heart. Because I know that you CAN eat without feeling guilty, you CAN eat fattening food without punishing yourself afterwards. What the scale says is NOT the most important thing. Being thin is NOT more important than being healthy. Being thin and not eating are NOT signs of true will power and success. Screw what all these pro-ana blogs tell you. You don’t have to be thin to be attractive. You are perfectly okay just the way you are.

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This is so powerful. Pressures of acceptance and beauty.

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