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To every kid who’s ever been told, “You’d be so pretty or handsome, if . . .” You ARE beautiful. Now. Just as you are. You deserve to be seen, to be heard, to take up room, to be noticed. So when the world tries to make you feel small, starfish!
Why aren’t kids allowed to tell grown-ups when they’re wrong? They don’t know everything. Sometimes it’s as if they don’t know anything.
“You’d be so pretty” —and all the big girls in the world can finish this sentence in unison— “if you lost weight.”
“Don’t let your mom’s issues with weight become your issues with weight, kiddo.”
Untrue, negative thought: The higher my weight, the lower my value. True, positive thought: A scale does not determine my worth.
That’s what the best books do. They make you think, and rethink how you see yourself, others, and the world. Most of all, they make you feel. Feelings toward people who aren’t like you. Feelings you didn’t know you had.”
