My body

I believe that Coopers story is the most important story to me. I can relate to it because I feel that the media puts it in young girls minds that we have to look a a certain way to look beautiful.

There was a point in my life where i did feel I needed to look that way, so i went and did some things i know i shouldn't have. I started throwing up. None of my family memebers knew what I was doing but they did start to notice how much weight I was losing. I got really sick from this illness and ended up in the emergency room.

All i wanted to do was fit in and look beautiful. I wanted to be accepted by people and have a lot of new friends. I didn't realize that the media was evil until this incident happened and until i got really sick.

I realized that being beautiful is not what the media puts out to see or how celebrities look, it is how you see yourself. It is whats inside that counts. You have to believe you're beautiful so other people can see that you're beautiful. I learned the hard way but now I know better. I'm beautiful because I believe it !