Here it is.

I'm sick of seeing pictures on fb posted by people which state the following...

"Yes I have curves, because I have the body of a real woman, not a 12 year old" and ... "Do you have this in a size for people who actually eat?" 

Now I'm not usually one to be offended by small minded people, but since a few weeks ago when it was featured on TV that shops would be selling size 000 and people went crazy saying this was disgusting and only children would fit those sizes, it really began to niggle me. 

I started feeling as though I should be ashamed of my body, looking at myself in the mirror when I passed, thinking "am I too thin?" Wondering if that was what people thought when they saw me in the street. 

Now I've never worried about my size before, I've always been small and petite, but never oddly out of proportion just me. So why all of a sudden was I feeling that I was any less of a woman and "disgusting" ?

Would it be ok for me to post photos commenting on larger peoples size? Making them feel as though they are less of a woman because they are larger? No. Because for some reason we tip toe around larger people, it's rude to comment or tell someone they are big. Yet no problem to comment on smaller people and tell them they should eat more etc. 

For the record I have always been this size, I eat just as much as any one else, yet I remain this size. Why? I don't know it's just who I am! So how dare anybody make me feel ashamed of that.

I began to find myself getting angry at myself for letting it bother me so much, why should I feel ashamed of my body? Why should the comments of others peoples small minds even effect me? 

I am happy to say I am 100% proud of my 5ft nothing petite frame! I won't ever be ashamed of a body that gave me my beautiful daughter, that allowed me to grow her healthily inside me for 9 months, and nurture her healthily outside so far for close to 8 months. 

For all the looks as stares as I walk around with her, I don't care. For as I once heard; 

People who matter don't mind, and people who mind don't matter. 

I am a healthy 27 year old woman, not a child and no one has the right to make me, or any other petite woman feel otherwise. We are just as much of a woman as a larger lady, just sometimes it is true that good things do come in small packages.