Beauty standards.
Beauty standards Let’s talk about beauty standards. I came across this particular video on Instagram reels, and that prompted this topic. First question I would like to ask: Why do people let every other person but themselves decide for them what they should look like? Growing up, I wouldn’t have exactly described myself as a pretty child. I had a very chubby face, with sunken eyes. I wasn’t fat but I have always had thick thighs. Something I was always teased for. “Yam legs”, that was what they called it. And it didn’t help that my face was riddled with pimples, and all the creams I had tried at the time didn’t seem to be working. So, I was the girl with fat legs, and pimple face. Then, being skinny was the real deal. Runway model skinny, and anyone not fitting into that genre, was considered ugly. Even if that person was a twelve-year-old girl going through puberty. What saw me through my teenage years were the fact that I had learnt two things. One, people would onl...