Beauty

Am I beautiful? Am I? So many young women, girls, old women, middle aged women...ALL WOMEN, ask themselves this question. Am I worthy, Am I enough, Am I worth pursuing???? The woman shown above is truly beautiful. She ran away from her husband when his continued abuse started putting her life at risk, but he caught her and did that to her face as well as cutting off parts of both her ears. Yet, she arose again, she contacted an agency that helps female abuse victims in Afghanistan, and through them she told her story to time magazine, facing the fear of putting her mutilated face on the cover of a famous magazine many many people would read. Many people would proceed to critique her story, to critique her, she was putting her life at risk even by doing this, but she knew that the world had to know about her fellow sisters who were being abused, just as badly as she was, in her nation. Her bravery paid off, she is now in the U.S. getting reconstructive surgery on her face, but it took great courage for her to speak up about the abuse she faced. This woman is truly beautiful! Unfortunately our culture and magazines such as Marie Clair, Vogue, Cosmo, Vanity Fair...all of them say, NO. You are only beautiful if you look the part. Do this and you will be, wear this and your hunny will never want to let you go. Eat this and your body will look like Angie's. But no! WE don't need to change, We are already perfect the way we were created. Yes you still need to take care of yourself and live healthy, mentally and physically, but, you are already beautiful and thinking anything other than that is a lie. I struggle with this every day and as much as I long to break into the fashion world, I struggle wondering if I will be able to stand up to the criticism of it all. The fact that they consider the sz 2 to be the new sz 4, worry's me. I want to go into fashion because I want to change it, ever so slightly, what the vision of true beauty is. One person cannot do this alone, I know, but one person can get the ball rolling,one clap can start an avalanche. I want to start that avalanche. I want to come out with a magazine that shows real women, that focuses on health and living a healthy lifestyle. Healthy thinking, featuring inspirational story's about women who have struggled and overcome eating disorders, drug addictions, an abortion, an abusive relationship. Women who have made a difference in their neighborhoods, their workplaces, their homes. Women who have impacted the people in their lives for good. I would want my readers to be able to respond, and I would feature many stories and letters in this magazine written by my readers. I would want complete, brutal honesty on these pages, and unless it was to create a work of art of a photo of something anything other than a woman's body, photo shop will be banned from my magazine! BANNED! BANNED! BANNED!!!