Hana, 18

I am all women/young girls who are everyday struggling with taking a picture, which will be similer to those we see on Instagram and Tumblr. I am all women/young girls who are sacrificing their own original beauty image to look like someone they see on the internet. I understand that beauty depends on fashion. Today you can have an ideal body, but in 5 years beauty standards change and with the same body you quickly become average or even below-average. I am still trying so hard to process the fact that there is no point in changing my body for someone else’s opinion and I see that the majority of young girls is going through same dilemmas. I see those young girls sacrificing themselves everywhere. They are my friends, my family, my schoolmates. No matter the size or shape - every single one of them is somehow unhappy with their body. Some are still so far away to release themselves of those standards in their heads, but I am happy every time someone succeeds as I will.

This is a piece of me I was not very fond of for a very long time. This is the first part in which my body stars storing fat if I put on a weight. And for even bigger frustration there is this big birthmark I particularly dislike. The more I grow up the more I know it’s silly to burden myself with something so small and so meaningless. And wherever I go, I surround myself with open-minded people who will not judge someone by shape of their body under any circumstances.