Ladies, embrace your natural selves

Ladies, embrace your natural selves (Photo: iStock)

Dear girlchild, be comfortable in your skin and embrace your naturalness. Do not bend backwards to make changes to your body to please men, especially physical modifications. We are all created differently but we are all beautiful in the eyes of not only God but also these men who we tend to be worried about. To use their expectations as the SI unit for beauty is like clinging on the BMI rating which in my opinion is purely meant for the European structure and figure. A full stack African woman is destined to have flesh here and there which would automatically tilt the scale.

Come to think of it, our grandmothers were tall, gigantic and with significant weight on their arms and huge load of flesh behind them. But because they worked consistently in the farms they stayed fit and never had issues with their health. Towering above six feet and with possibly five kilogrammes of mammary glands, most of them would be declared obese without even stepping on the weighing scale. The naked eye would be enough! Interestingly, they lived long lives without any element of lifestyle conditions that many of us encounter today in our forties. The point here is that we should step out and exercise consistently to keep our bodies active but not to conform to some Caucasian standards that was not designed for black Africa.