❤️❤️❤️ #loveyourlines ❤️❤️❤️ Hi new followers! Since I now know that you ladies found me on a BuzzFeed article about this topic, I wanted to tell you 2 things: 1) BuzzFeed writers are dumb & credited a photo to me that is neither of me nor taken by me. That image was a repost of a submission by @ariannekmx to the @loveyourlines account & I highly suggest you give them both a follow & check out the original post on their pages. 2) My experience with my body and its lines --- My lines are a result of the fact that in my adult life, my weight has ranged between 115-145 lbs. I have heard a correspondingly wide range of comments from society about it: my mother making fun of my love handles, being offered a modeling contract & then subsequently being told it was depending upon me losing weight, constant questioning as to if I have an eating disorder, complete strangers telling me I am so skinny that I look sick & disgusting (when I lost weight due to a severe depressive episode, since loss of appetite is one way my depression manifests.) All those things! About the same body, at different points in time. Being a woman in our world today is very much a damned if you do, dammed if you don't situation, in my opinion. The thing that has finally helped me to find gratitude and love for my body is cycling. I never knew how strong I was until I started working as a bike messenger, which in turn led me to racing bikes. I'm constantly surprised at how I am physically & mentally capable of so much more than I think I am. My legs & hips are my favorite part of my body, & I love that their lines form another layer of aura around my patron saint. The moral of this story is: your body is (all bodies are) strong, beautiful, adaptable, worthy of gratitude & care...& if anyone else ever tries to tell you otherwise, you can tell them to fuck right off. ☺️✌🏼❤️ A photo posted by Ngejung (@nge_jung) on Apr 15, 2015 at 11:20pm PDT