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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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