We did not choose to carry the body that we currently have. It was given to us. Our bodies are a gift and we are personally not responsible for it.
Realize that this society has over-emphasized external beauty. External beauty is popular in society because of the money that it makes. Society and the media has emphasized superficial beauty to the extent where pre-teens are starving themselves and wearing provocative clothing. This is obviously not healthy or normal emotionally or psychologically. If society is having this sort of effect on children, what sort of effect is it having on adults?
It is good to take care of yourself. Don't walk around disheveled and unkempt. But wearing tons of makeup, wearing clothing which you don't feel comfortable in and shows a lot of skin, is not necessarily beauty. What is real beauty does not fade with time. Our faces and bodies, if we live long enough, will become wrinkly and old. That is still beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
How can you not be beautiful? God is perfect and you are a perfect creation of God.
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