I recently wore a size 2, coming from a size 00. Oh, how I longed to be back there. So I worked out and worked out, killing myself and making myself sick, all because I thought I was fat! I accomplished my goal of getting back to my size 00, but it is the process that I went through that was shameful.

How often do you find yourself responding to society’s rules about how you should look? I’ve noticed that more and more society plays a huge role in self-esteem. Every commercial that’s made and every magazine you read is flooded with ads for- what I call- “self-esteem in a can”.

Don’t believe those ads.

Today, stop killing yourself. Stop trying to shrink that number that appears in the back of your jeans, because you are perfect just the way you are.

—Penna

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