You can’t go to Target and buy confidence and self-love - there’s no handbook for it; it’s something that you have to find for yourself and no one can hand it to you. Imagine there’s this wall in our mind that is made up of restrictions that society has placed upon it, things like “I can’t show my body in a bikini at the beach”; “I’m too fat to have sex with the lights on”; “I’m not pretty enough to be desirable” and so on. However, once people see my photos - in which I exude sensuality and confidence and am not at all hiding that I am fat - it starts forming cracks in that wall. 

 The more representation people see of people being unapologetic about what society deems as undesirable - the more cracks form and the more their own perception of themselves changes. It will be gradual at first, from – “I have no worth because I am too much of this or not enough of that” and “I hate my body because of such and such” - to finally breaking large holes out of that wall and realizing: “Holy crap - I actually do have worth regardless of what societal beauty standards say! ...Maybe I’m even perfect.”

 It is the most liberating experience getting to choose how you perceive yourself and choosing to love yourself. It is in fact- a revolutionary act.

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