Ashley Jamesさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Ashley JamesInstagram)「I'm a fool for trying to put jeans on during quarantine, but I'm even more of a fool for spending so long thinking that my beauty or sex appeal was defined by the size of my jeans. Being smaller doesn't make us any more beautiful or confident. ❤️👖 I look back at photos of myself, and wonder how I was so insecure about my body. Wonder how I denied my body carbs for so many years, especially when pasta is one of my favourite things in the world. The ironic thing being that I was a lingerie model at the time. I was a model, the body of the 'ideal body', and I was so insecure I used to Google: how to be confident. Why? Well, partly because my images would come back totally altered, and seeing them slim down my waist or arms (without my permission) made me feel I wasn't ok the way I was. Because mainly, because beauty standards are totally unattainable. Diet culture profits off making us feel inadequate and like we need to buy this, or get down to this size, in order to be happy. And we really fucking don't. Because how many of us look back and see photos of ourselves and think how great we looked? Surely this proves that the problem isn't our body. ❤️ There is nothing wrong with getting bigger. Your beauty and confidence does not require you to be smaller. How many friends, or women online, do you know who are bigger than you and are beautiful? Teach yourself to be as kind to yourself as you are to your friends. We wouldn't tolerate our friends speaking to us the way we speak to ourselves. But it's ok that we beat ourselves up, it's not our fault. It's the fault of diet culture and Photoshop. But we can change our mindset. It takes time, but we can all love ourselves. 💆🏼‍♀️ Yes, lockdown has made my jeans too tight. But who cares? They come in bigger sizes. Maybe it's because my body naturally fluctuates. Confidence isn't a shape. Sexiness is a mindset. I follow so many beautiful women on here of so many different shapes and sizes. I see cellulite now, and I think it's beautiful. I see stretch marks as little tapesties showing how our bodies have evolved or grown babies. Be kind to yourself, especially in lockdown. ❤️✌️」5月4日 4時08分