beauty

How I learned to love my scars after surviving third degree burns

When your body is draped in scars from third-degree burns, the journey to self-acceptance is more difficult than most. Burn survivors have usually experienced a traumatic event with fire, hot water, or oil. For myself, it was hot water during one otherwise lazy afternoon, at the young and fragile age...

How getting plastic surgery helped me confront my own fatphobia and nurture body positivity

For most of my life, I hated the way I looked. I don’t explicitly recall the moment I began to see myself as ugly. I just felt like it was a fact, like in the same way that night brings darkness, and that the sky is blue. As a...