Body Confidence.

In the past few months the internet has lit up with the same topic – Body Confidence. There’s a lot of love-hate relationships when it comes to body confidence, and everyone has their own opinions. Plus what people say and do can always be complete opposites. For me, as an example, I like to tell people they don’t need to worry about the way they look, or what size they are.

Today’s world is full of sexy curvy woman or sensual slim ones but its created this entire stigma that you have to be perfect to be pretty – and you don’t. Beauty is only skin deep, you could be the most beautiful person on the planet but if your personality isn’t up to the same standard you are just as ugly as anyone else. Ugly hearts paint ugly faces.

Women, men, adults, children, people. We come in all shapes and sizes an deserve to be loved for every inch no matter how big or small it is.

In the recent months it all started with a song, Meghan Trainer’s All About That Bass single is a hit. It’s catchy tune and easy lyrics make it far too easy to catch yourself singing and bopping along to when it comes on the radio but there are a few lines in the song that has made it sky rocket to every bloggers hit list. For the longest time there has been a saying which goes, “Only Dogs Like Bones”. That saying has been around for centuries so why when a modern singer sticks a line in a song “go ahead and tell them skinny bitches that” does the internet fly into a frenzy?

No-one is saying the line is perfect because when taken out of context and used to be-little people, it is definitely detrimental. However, if you take the rest of the song and ignore that one line, it’s a good song with a catchy tune that’s tells us “Mamma told me don’t worry about your size”.

Let’s look at another line from the song – “I see the magazines working that Photoshop We know that shit ain't real Come on now, make it stop”. It’s no secret that A LOT of magazines use Photoshop to make their models looks more desirable, and it’s no secret that it works, but in this day and age we know that most of it is fake and so it shouldn’t be done any more. Celebrities alike are going all out and having photo-shoots done and purposely asking for images not to be edited to show the world that it doesn’t matter what size, shape, or condition your body is, you shouldn’t worry about it because you are beautiful.

Then it was Victoria Secret’s turn because of their “Perfect Body” campaign which saw a variety of “skinny” flat stomached women grazing the front of their website that claimed their underwear was “Perfect Fit. Perfect Comfort. Perfectly Soft.”. While some may agree with the fact for this campaign to work Victoria Secret should have used an array of models with different body types you could also argue that the campaign may not have worked if it hadn’t.

Honestly it all depends on their aim. If it was to spark up attention in the media and get some more traffic to their website, it did the trick. If it was to sell the “Perfect Fit” piece of underwear, then they may have needed to rethink the use of models. Throw in a couple plus size models, they’re just as pretty as the skinny ones.

Skinny, it’s used as a derogatory term. Just like many other words in our language today, and to think we made all this happen ourselves. We have to be so careful about the words we use today because of how easy the human race is to influence. People have created meanings for words that never used to be there, curvy means your fat, skinny means your skin and bones. What happened to the days where we could say the words curvy and skinny and not have to question whether the person saying it meant it nicely or not?

Unless there is something medically wrong with someone people shouldn't worry about what they look like too much, and thats the way it should stay.