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“Am I Too Ugly to Be Loved?”
Here’s your answer.
Would you ever love someone who looked like you?
Someone with stretch marks on their thighs and a weird mole on the back of their neck? Someone with a crooked nose or very thin lips?
Sometimes I look in the mirror and stare at the blackheads on my nose, and I think, “Who could ever love someone with a strawberry for a nose?”
How would you look at a woman who lacked a thigh gap? Would you look away in disgust? Would pinch that skin and tell her to get rid of it? Tell her that women are supposed to be thin?
How would you look at a man whose stomach was soft and arms were thin as branches? Would you lift his shirt and tell him it was time to get into shape? Look at him as if he weren’t a real man?
No? Then why do you speak to yourself that way?
Would you ever love someone who looked like you?
Someone with a gap in their teeth, or A-cup breasts, or a bulging belly. Someone whose arms jiggled or who had so many acne scars on their back you could find constellations.
Would you ever look at someone’s uneven eyes, or too-big nose, or freckled face and think, “No one will ever fall in love with you.”
