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I Am A Woman, Accept Me For Who I Am
I believe every good column should have both research based articles and what I consider “fun” articles. This week, I want my article to be refreshing as well as fun, it can still be empowering to women, but we can’t have too much serious in a world filled with so much turmoil and economic hardship.So this article is dedicated to every woman who has ever got up in the morning or tried to get ready for a big date and rummaged through her closet, only to find she had nothing to wear, or gone to the bathroom and not been able to find the right shade of makeup or the right hair do for that day. It may not seem like a very big deal to men, but it’s important to us. A lot of what we wear stems from how we feel about how we feel about ourselves. Some women wear baggy frumpy clothes because they are uncomfortable with how they look. Maybe they are not happy with their bodies. Some women wear skin tight clothes because they are also insecure, as weird as this sounds, it is true, women who feel they aren’t very intellectual or beautiful, feel if they advertise using their bodies, that maybe they will get their attention that way. Just a warning though, that usually only brings about negative attention. Most women today need to get a better sense of themselves, mostly because of how we’re portrayed in the media. The majority of fashion magazines have models that most women could never look like without plastic surgery. This is done because that’s what sells, most people aren’t going to buy an issue of Vogue and want to see everyday women in it. Everyday women are the women that weigh more than 100lbs, are shorter than 5’8’, and don’t have someone to do our hair and makeup every minute of every day. But who can help but want to look like these models when we see them. So what should we do? We still buy these magazines because they have nice styles and ideas in them and some even have really good articles. We use them to give us ideas about our own fashion sense, but in a more frugal way. So what don’t we do? We don’t look at them wishing we looked like them, especially to the point where we go on crazy unhealthy diets. We don’t try to imagine what life would be like if we were like them, because we’re not and probably never will be, and that’s ok because we don’t need to be. We are fine with just who we are. We as women need to start accepting ourselves for who we are. That is very important. If we don’t have love for ourselves how can we have love for others? I know for myself I am my hardest judge, and I always will be, but there comes a time when we need to start cutting ourselves some slack and just start being comfortable with all our faults. I had a good friend who once told me she use to go to the gym every day, eat good, do crunches every day, but nothing she did could get rid of her little belly. Finally she just decided to “embrace” her belly. She accepts it as a part of her and she is much happier. We need to start realizing that wrinkles, stretch marks, bellies, rolls, flabby arms, wiggly legs, dark circles, bags under the eyes, all these things are a sign of age, motherhood, weather, makeup, working long hours. We as women have a lot on our plates to handle, it’s no wonder we feel the repercussions of it. Corporate America goes out of their way to create new products to help conceal and supposedly make these flaws disappear. Some of them work, some of them don’t. Buying into them is a matter of opinion, I won’t lie, my shelf is pretty stocked with a lot of these fix-it products, but I’m working really hard on getting rid of a lot of them by the summer. My goal for the summer is to let good old Mother Nature take care of my highlights and tanning for me, with appropriate sunscreen of course. I hope this article has been helpful and maybe a little insightful. And remember, before anyone else can accept you for the real you, first you have to. 
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