'Change of any kind is hard to accept, but it doesn't mean we can't become confident again — or for the first time,' writes TamaraMena1.
When I started junior high school in León, Mexico, where I grew up, my. At school, we had to wear uniforms, and my skirt was usually shorter than that of my classmates — siempre la coqueta. But all of a sudden, I started getting a lot of compliments about my full legs. I remember feeling somewhat confused at first. I had always hated this part of my body, so hearing other people, especially boys, say they were beautiful made me start looking at them a little bit differently.
The first time I looked at myself in the mirror, sitting in a wheelchair, I felt terrible about myself. I did not feelat all, much less sexy. Not feeling most of my body was also strange. My body was in shock, and I was, too. I’d finally learned to love my body, and now I was once again hating it, critiquing it, and being scared of it. The world no longer felt like it was made for me, and in a lot of ways it wasn’t.I am so fortunate to have been raised by a strong single mother.
and body image. I remember her always being hard on herself, complaining about how she looked while I stared and thought,
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