Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.

Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"

I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'