azra i know you're not an advice blog but i have no one else to turn to - how did you become so confident in yourself & your body? i am cripplingly insecure about certain things (small boobs, stretch marks) & it prevents me from experiencing stuff that i w

Baby it was such an uphill battle and it still is. I’m still trying not to hate myself because it feels like everything tells me that I should. But it starts as an inward process, I think. I started to like who I am as a person, nothing to do with my looks, just me as I am. And then it slowly began to be okay that I have stretch marks and rolls on my tummy and dimples on my thighs and my knees are darker than the rest of my body because it doesn’t matter so much as long as I was happy that I’m nice to people, and occasionally very gentle and funny and clever. Once you start beginning to appreciate who you are outside of how you look, you can start loving how you look because of those things x