Comments on: This Post is All About Me. Seriously. Me. Me. Me.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:26:06 +0000

I think you look adorable! Nobody is perfect, and everyone always thinks there’s something wrong with their body. I’m at the other end of the spectrum, I’m super skinny. I always have been. It’s genetics. As a consequence, I’ve always been accused of having an eating disorder, people push me like they don’t even see that I’m there, any and all clothes I find are too long (I’m also short, only 5′) so I have to hem them with duct tape (I’m not much of a seamstress!), I’ve been picked on and beat up. I’ve tried to gain weight, eat lots and don’t work out, eat healthy and work out, gone to the Dr. to see if I have a thyroid issue, etc. But no, it’s just how I am. But after all the BS, at the end of the day, this is me, and I’m happy with that. I have to be. It’s not like I can trade in this body for another one, or change what genetics have given me. I think you look absolutely wonderful, strong and empowered, and you should be proud of how you look!

By: Adorkablegrrl

Adorkablegrrl — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:42:28 +0000

Have I mentioned recently that you’re my hero and an inspiration?
Thx LeahPeah!
xo

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:41:51 +0000

made me think of Judith Moore and Molly Ivins who I miss more than being 6 years old.

By: JennaMcWilliams

JennaMcWilliams — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:37:12 +0000

I love you. I don’t even know you, but I love you. And I bet you’re the most fantastic fun to drink and laugh and talk with in the entire world. Yay, you.

By: JustLinda

JustLinda — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:31:02 +0000

You don’t know me, so it sorta feels weird saying this… you’re beautiful.

And is it freeing, what you have done here? I hope it is.

A few years ago, I put my number out there – the scale number. I hated the power it had over me, that secret number. I was tired of it. So I just announced it to everyone, and I worked it into many posts on my blog.

I don’t know what kind of blogger I am. Certainly not a craft blogger or a cooking blogger or a domestic goddess blogger. I’m part mommy blogger. I suppose if someone had to classify me, I might be a fat-girl blogger, because weight has been a prevalent theme in my life.

It was quite freeing to put it all out there into the universe like I did, and I think that’s what you’re doing. After all, we are who we are. Revealing that to the world is part of what we bloggers do.

I think they are lovely photos. Well done.

By: bzzzzgrrrl

bzzzzgrrrl — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:26:15 +0000

I am late to this party, because I am only just getting around to clearing old five-Star Fridays out of my Reader. But, three things:
1) You are gorgeous. I don’t know you, so none of that is tainted by an appreciation for your sparkling personality or your kindness or how great you are. You are just physically lovely, and that is clear in most of those pictures, both the shoulders-up ones and the ones that show all of you. And you’re one of those people who has that range, from sweetly pretty to just foxyhot.

2) I hesitated to put that #1 first, because it bothers me a little that that comment might matter to you. It would matter to me, though, because that is the world we live in, and that is why I did put it first. But the comments from the folks who DO know you, who know that you’re smart and funny and loving and a good person? Those are the ones you should put any stock in at all. As women we spend a lot of time already worrying about whether some complete stranger somewhere thinks we look good. Ugh.

3) I know only one porn star. And I would never tell her this, because I am pretty sure she has the same insecurities you and I do (and how could she not? Whether strangers think she looks good is her livelihood), but she is just not as good-looking as you are. Of course, I do know HER, so that might be to some degree tainted by her personality.

By: Sheri BHeri

Sheri BHeri — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:54:49 +0000

Leah – I felt like I couldn’t leave this post without commenting.

Nobody likes pictures of themselves. I bet you that most of those people in the pictures that you were comparing yourself to, were thinking the same sort of things.

In real life, no one focuses on your hands, your neck, or the way you fill up a chair, they look at your eyes and your face and your animation. And unfortunately, a still photo cannot capture your animation and your energy. Would you really rather be “eye candy”? Really? Because I’d rather be interested and interesting, funny, smart and cheeky, and NONE of those things show up in pictures.

If pictures of yourself make you sad, then don’t look at them. Show them to others, and listen to what other people say and hear the love that filters what they see.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:30:35 +0000

You are adoreable.
And always have been.
And NO ONE can compare.
Not possible.
I hear your words…and the ones you don’t say.
My heart aches for you.
And I’m thinking of you.
((hugs))

By: NTE

NTE — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:06:00 +0000

I wish I were brave enough to come out from behind the camera… pictures with me are tough not to immediately throw into the recycle icon, that’s for sure.

I think you are just lovely. And, while I’ve never been here before, I will surely be back, because you’re so honest and your words have real meaning.

By: LoLa

LoLa — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:00:19 +0000

Oh how you read my mind and heart and make me wish oh how I wish I could be this brave. This post helps. You are a beauty.