Girl.
Because no matter what decade we find ourselves in, we share a desire to
heal a piece of ourselves while doing everything within our power to make
sure today’s daughters grow strong in mind before all else.
Body.
We are at war with the reflection we see in the mirror. It’s either too
full or too thin or too curvy or not curvy enough.
We want more for our daughters. We also want to be able to check out at the
grocery store without being bombarded by magazine headlines touting The
Best Diet, How to Get a Better Body Faster, and the
Six-Week-Post-Partum-Bikini-Photo-Shoot that is now par for the course for
practically every celeb mom. This constant reminder that we can’t possibly
be happy as we are is what we (and our kids) have at eye-level and what we
(and they) see on television daily. And that, my friends, is total bullshit.
Pride.
We all need to be reminded that we are worth everything at this very
moment. Happiness is not something to be determined by a number on the
scale or the tag in our clothing and Hollywood doesn’t get to tell our us,
our daughters, sisters, friends, and cousins that we aren’t perfectly
wonderful just as we are anymore.
No matter our body type or our social standing in high school or if we’ve
had five kids or none, we at Girl.Body.Pride are here to remind us all to
focus on our beauty, our strengths, and our spirits. No matter what anyone
else says, we must remember that how we see ourselves is most important.
Girl.Body.Pride.
Just the Way We Are.
Pauline Campos
Wife to The Husband and mother to “Buttercup,” Pauline has decided that it’s time to make peace with her cellulite after moving to northern Maine because she knows how to rock the Drama Queen. The “being severely allergic to mesquite and the entire southern border” thing also makes for a great punchline while proving that it is, in fact, entirely possible to be allergic to being Mexican.
Pauline has always known she was going to be a writer and finally got tired of hearing The Husband ask when she was going to make him rich, so she finally stopped dreaming and started doing. But then she got distracted by a squirrel wearing something shiny.
Pauline got started in newspapers and served as city editor for a few local papers before hitting the big time at The Detroit News and freelancing for the Metro-Detroit based Metro Parent Magazine before taking a break after baby. She has blogged for Funny Not Slutty, Owning Pink, and is a regular contributor at 30 Second Mom while maintaining her own blog at Aspiring Mama. Girl Body Pride is her answer to a lifetime of self-doubt, body image issues, and an eating disorder. She is represented by literary agent Michele Martin of MDM Management. Connect with her on her About.Me page.
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