ルマ・グローテさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ルマ・グローテInstagram)「Confidence and self love take over you when you are able to look in the mirror and admire all the little things you didn’t like in yourself before. When you accept your “imperfections”, they become your uniqueness, your allies. When I was little, people use to make fun of my forehead for its shape, I was very bullied by school kids and even family members (everyone have that silly cousin right?) and my gosh, did I get a complex about that? haha yes I did. For many years. Then one day, I saw a huge painting of a Congolese woman 3 meter by 2, and she had the same forehead, the same nose, and the same lips as mine but with a dark skin color and deep black eyes. She looked like a queen and I was mesmerized by her. After that I did one of those ancestry DNAs tests and discovered that I was 9% from the Congo. Of course I’m a very creative person and in my mind I thought maybe I was related to the confident woman in the painting somehow. Well maybe I am. Our ancestors, we carry so much from them, not just physically but energetically. What I’m trying to say is that it took me many years and a 3 meters tall painting for me to admire myself in the mirror the same way I admired that painting. “All the love I gave to the woman in the painting could’ve been the love I gave to myself” I thought. I changed the relationship I had with myself, everyone noticed, few days after my beloved hair stylist @stephanelancien looked at me and said “I love your forehead, you are like a queen” And that’s the moral of the story.」12月3日 22時49分