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How to Look Good Naked

I wish I had time to watch more tv. I hear about all these wonderful shows but rarely have time to watch them. This week, I finally saw “How to Look Good Naked”. I cried.

It was about a mother and daughter who had body image issues (don’t we all?). The daughter had a young girl. She desperately didn’t want to pass her issues on to her daughter. She wanted to stop it before it affected the next generation. As a mom, I know and I understand that.

I’ve spoken on this blog and in the store about finding your own confidence. “Love your body as it is” are the words I speak. What I feel isn’t always that. Sometimes I do end up at the pool and look at my post-breastfeeding-sagging breasts and wonder what I would look like with perky plastics. I quickly remember that for me, silicone won’t solve the problem. The issue isn’t my boobs. It is that I am comparing myself to an unrealistic image. One I will never be.

More importantly, I don’t want to send a message to my girls (and boys) that they aren’t loveable just as they are.

Obviously, shows like “How to Look Good Naked” are fighting the media images of the ‘perfect woman’. They are fighting a quiet fight to have women accept themselves. At least, I thought it was a quiet fight. The show ended with the mother and daughter walking the catwalk in lingerie in a mall, then showing it all (from behind). What was amazing was the crowd’s reaction. The mall was lined with a thousand of women cheering. No one was commenting on the bits of cellulite that lined their thighs nor booing about their sagging (age appropriate) breasts.

I think every women in the crowd wished they could walk that catwalk. I am guessing that every woman was praying that society would drop the ‘perfect body’ and accept us as we are. I wish I could walk that catwalk and not care if I were judged.

I cried because my four year old asks me how to put on make-up. I wear very little make up but she sees it. She wants to emulate me.

I will continue to fight my not so quiet fight for women with big boob, little boob, saggy boobs, big hips, little hips, no bum, big bum, cellulite, lumps, bumps and bones. I will not ‘look good naked’. Not today. I’m not ready. But I commit to feeling better naked. I need to readjusting my compass and point it towards a better self-accepting me.