When I was twelve years old, I started developing, and I was just horrified. No one ever taught me how to deal with the attention I would get with that body, so when I started getting it, it scared me.
~Erin, 24, Girl Culture, Lauren Greenfield
The thing about accepting our bodies, if we are in the kind that go through a monthly cycle, is that they are changing all the time. If you are able to accept your curves or your height or your skin today, it is almost magical how you may wake up tomorrow and see something different in the mirror than you did last night. Depending upon what your hormones are doing this time of the month, or what you ate last night, or how much you were in the sun or if it is allergy season, much of how you look is changing constantly. A night of eating salty snacks and sobbing through a movie will mean you wake up looking differently than if you spent the previous day lounging at the beach.
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