My oh my have I been a slacker!!! Well actually I shouldn’t say that because I have been doing things of utmost importance I swear! However it has been nearly a month since my last post eeeek! So my apologies now for not having written to your beautiful selves sooner, it’s been a crazy whirlwind of look books, dresses, buying meetings, marketing, advertising and everything else in between! And speaking of advertising, Curvy is Beautiful has featured an ad in this months edition of Plus Size Model Mag http://plus-model-mag.com/ and we’re also now listed under Marketplace, Boutique. So do drop on by and of course please keep spreading the word!

Now on spreading the word, my regulars would know all about this bandwagon of mine, but for you newbies (and for those of you needing a little reminder!) I’ll say it again….here at Curvy is Beautiful our aim, our goal – MY aim, MY goal, MY passion, is to spread the word of self acceptance. Spread the word that YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL regardless of your size, you are beautiful regardless of that number on the scales and most importantly, you are worth so much more than the value society places on your clothing size….

There is more to life than counting calories and worrying about a few extra kilos and there sure as hell is more to life than beating yourself up over what people say you should look like in order to be classified as beautiful. We are all beautiful in our own way, size 6 or size 26 it doesn’t matter. Who you are on the inside is what matters. How you feel about yourself and the image you portray to others is what matters. Confidence and a beautiful heart is what makes a woman sexy.

Whilst I have received an incredible amount of support with this message of mine, I have also received my fair share of criticisms. Why? Well other than the fact that you can’t please everybody! I have been told that by promoting the message that any size is beautiful, I am potentially advocating an unhealthy lifestyle. Now I disagree with that whole heartedly and want people to know that I am in no way saying we should be unhealthy.

What I am saying is that we aren’t all built the same. We can’t all be the same size, or fit into some height and weight chart that someone decided was ‘right’ or ‘healthy’.  You can be classified as ‘overweight’ yet still be fit and healthy. I think the methods for determining what weight we should or shouldn’t be are flawed. As an individual you should know what is comfortable for you. You need to be happy and confident with who you are and you need to feel good about yourself.  Others shouldn’t be determining that for you.

And regardless of your size, if the self acceptance and love doesn’t come from within, you will never be satisfied. You will always look in that mirror and see flaws. Because unfortunately that mirror, doesn’t show us the inside. We need to love ourselves and love our bodies. There are so many people out there who are sick or dying and have issues that are far greater than not being a certain size or weight. Let’s start getting our priorities in order. Let’s start appreciating what we do have and let’s start being thankful for the fact that we are here and we are living this life in a world that is full of opportunity.

Don’t let the irrelevant consume you. Don’t let society’s stereotypes stop you from loving yourself, stop you from succeeding or stop you from being the person you want to be. The sky’s the limit and it’s a positive thought pattern that will get you there. Now with that thought I’m going to love you and leave you. Have an amazing weekend beautiful people!

Until next time

x