1. 14:13 28th Jun 2012

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    Tags: keepitreal

    #Keepitreal

    Before I graduated my mom used to tell me that I was ugly all of the time to make me feel bad about myself— that she didn’t like my hair, that my skin looked bad, that I looked fatter than before, etc. It worked, I felt really bad about my body and more hideous every time she said something like that. In my third grade school picture I am crying because she told me that morning that my hair looked terrible. 

    Looking back, obviously my mother had some terrible parenting skills. But I blame beauty magazines and the media for both teaching her to think that it was okay to use literally unreal standards of beauty against me, and more importantly I blame magazines like Seventeen for giving me so many reasons to believe her. 

    Antes de que me gradué mi mama siempre me decía que yo era fea para que me sentía mal—que no le gustaba mi pelo, que mi piel se veía mal, que estaba mas gorda que antes, etc. Y funcionaba, sentía muy mal sobre mi cuerpo y más fea cada vez que me dijo algo así. Estoy llorando en mi foto de clase de 11 años porque ese día en la mañana me dijo que mi pelo se veía terrible.

    Mirando hacia atrás, es obvio que mi mamá no era una mamá muy buena por cosas así. Pero yo creo que la culpa está con las revistas de belleza y otros medios de comunicación por enseñar a ella que está bien usar estándares de belleza literalmente falsas contra mí, y más importante la culpa está con estas revistas como Seventeen por darme tantas razones a creer lo que me estaba diciendo.

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