the size issue

Ever notice how size - whether you're curvy or petite - takes up just enough time in editorial thought for one annual issue of a magazine?

Here we realize that the messages that are being sent every day create a whole lot of Size Issues. And other issues. Editorials, articles, commercials and even our own communities tell us things about acceptable body diversity every day. We like to celebrate when these things are broken down, and the way we can celebrate ourselves.

And of course, people are welcome to submit!

fatfromtheside:

I’ve been wanting to submit ever since I found this blog, but I had work through some denial I have about my body. I know I’m fat, but I feel acceptable from the front. Face on, I love myself, but from the side? That seems like a whole other woman to me.

Then my mother accidently got this shot of me… And its ok. I have a double chin, small boobs and rolls of fat around my belly. I have back fat and no bum! Seeing this picture made me feel ok about it. I stopped denying the whole picture, the 3D model that is my body. I don’t have to make sure my ‘best’ side is always showing. It’s a start.

submitted by raggedy-andy

Whoops, posted to wrong blog >_>