I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.

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.

Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

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