Friday, 28 October 2011

Love yourself

1:46 pm | Posted by Amy | Edit Post
Thanks to mamamia for sharing these images from South African Marie Claire on body image. Of course the magazine completely ruined its good by using a model photoshopped to hell on the cover and had bikini diets and liposuction as topics *rolling eyes*

But some of the ads included inside were pretty good.

Saatchi

The Jupiter Drawing Room



Be kind to yourself today.

3 comments:

Lydia said...

An apt message. We do need to be kind to ourselves.

29 October 2011 at 1:55 am
Mel said...

Love this post Amy! Very timely with us coming into Summer as well.

I have only just been talking to Damo about this too - mainly about my perception of myself. I look at him and see the person I love, and yet I look at myself and see flaws. I want to have a timmer belly, smaller boobs, smaller thighs, and so on. And yet I've been at the gym for the past 10wks and have toned up considerably to the point where my hairdresser asked where half my bum had gone! LOL. I'm fitting into my clothes better - even shorts that I wore before having kids, so even though I'm not 'perfect' in my own eyes, perhaps I should stop worrying? Who else am I needing to look good for apart from my hubby? So long as I feel happy, shouldn't that be enough? I mean, yes, I could probably get back down to a size 10, but the food that I would have to cut out and the additional exercise that I would have to pick up would severely affect my personal life and I don't think I'd be as happy as I am now.

Definitely food for thought. Hopefully I can sort it all out before Ashleigh & Liam get older so I don't pass my self image worries on to them!

1 November 2011 at 9:53 am
Rat Baker said...

Wow. I love this. It's so unbelievably true.

1 November 2011 at 11:19 am

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