To all females....

Idk beauty standards have always been unreachable, as time passes by this is something that still maintains and raises, is an industry afterall. Making women spend on things to make them look "prettier" or "hotter" is something that can't be erased. There are people that are against it and there are some that not. For me I used to care a lot about my looks and I had a very low self steem and once I started doing exercise and got myself skinny and stuff I actually didn't love myself as I do now. When I was doing exercise I thought that I wasn't perfect enough, that kept me going until I was too skinny and I had to stop. Once I started studying something that I like I decided to leave that aside, I finally started to not care about that. I started to see myself in the mirror and all I can see is a beauty on it. I don't care if people compare me to other women or not, I am myself and I actually love the way I am. I stopped trying to be more skinny, I just straighten my hair or put on little make up. I really think women should love themselves more. When they do so they'll actually look more beautiful in other people's eyes. So fuck the system, if you're ugly or pretty it doesn't matter, what matters the most is who you are and where are you striving to be at, that's it.

No really...if I were to go on diet it won't be so that I can get a boyfriend, it be for my health. But I really don't care what people say, all because it's going to be my problem in the future not there's.

I think as opposed to standards of beauty, it would be more beneficial to your happiness and self esteem if you just strive for a healthy body instead. You can still be a bit chubby and have a healthy, functioning body. This goes for both genders, by the way. If anything, I should put on a few pounds.

Beauty standards to me have always been strange. There are times when I wasn't physically attracted to a woman but when I got to know her she became beautiful inside and out then there have been times when others are physically attracted to someone but when I got to know her, her personality and mannerisms were unattractive to me and thus made her unattractive, at least in my eyes. Everyone's perception of beauty is different.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ spscarecrow ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Yeah, that's one of the funny things about attraction. I remember reading a study where a group of guys were lined up, and a group of girls had to pick who they believed were the most physically attractive. Initially, they picked the same three guys rather consistently, and then they had to interact with the guys a bit. When they were done, the girls had to rate the guys again and the results broadened much more drastically. So that is actually true, our perception of physical beauty does change the longer we get to know the person. Again, this is why I stress a healthy body over an attractive body.

Of course lol, I'm a little bigger then the average girl (mostly because I'm short so it stacks) and u wish u could like that but instead I hate myself every time I look in the mirror Also I like turtles

Do I at this moment? No. Have I ever? Yes. At this point, I could care less about "conforming to the standards of bodily attractiveness that the media glorifies with models". I care more about feeling comfortable in my own skin, getting myself healthy (both physically and mentally), and allowing myself to grow as an individual. I am a big girl. According to the BMI charts, even after losing over 40 lbs, I'm considered obese. And you know what? I'm okay with that. I am proud of myself for getting this far. After years of being in the 230 lb - 240 lb range, I've gotten into the high 190 lb mark. I am continuing to lose weight and better myself so I can live my life to the fullest. I am making myself a stronger person and to me, that's more important than anyone else's input, whether it's an individual or the media's.

Clearly not a female here, but I think it's fair to say that there isn't a girl who isn't affected by societal body standards, although the degree that they're affected can vary. That being said, my two cents is that you shouldn't try to attain the perfect body, because it doesn't exist. At the same time, you shouldn't exactly just lie around and read manga all day; instead, try to be the healthiest you that you can be. Effort is attractive.