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

Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.

Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.

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

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!

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.