I Am Beautiful

I am beautiful.

I am beautiful.
 I will not change because I am told.
 I will not be something I have never been.
 I will look in the mirror and see beauty.

My flaws are my personality.
 Every scar, every blemish and oddity a mark of who god made me.
 My stretch marks say I am a woman.
 My wrinkles say I smile and laugh.
 My eyes say I love,
 My lips say I have loved.
 My hair shows the signs of being touched held, caressed, blown by the wind, admired,
 And put through a million treatments because it wasn’t good enough.
 I have been compared to a model, I have ben compared to a whale.
 I have been called a rhinoceros, and I have been called Marilyn Monroe.
 I will never listen again to those who tell me I am not good enough,
 Or I am to fat,
 To weak,
 To short,
 To ugly,
 To loud,
 I am me.
 And beautiful.
 Or not.
 I will never change.
 God made me this way, and I will strive to be healthy. Not skinny, not thick, not curvy.
 I will be the best me I can be and no more.
 And I will believe I am beautiful.
 I will believe I am good enough.
 Because god made me, and he made me for a purpose.
 If my purpose isn’t to be a model, some other girls is.
 If my purpose isn’t to be a singer, some other girls is.
 If my purpose isn’t to be an orator, some other girls is.
 If my purpose isn’t to be a lawyer or a doctor or anything else we all have aspired to be then someone else is.
 And I will find my place soon enough
 Because he made me a work of art.
 And I am beautiful.
 One way or another.
 I am his creation.

I am 5'3 and 140 pounds...
 a swimmer with a lot of fat and a lot of muscle.