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With summer around the corner, be prepared for your Instagram feed to be filled with posts about the perfect thighbrows, thigh gaps, and — most unrealistically of all — bikini bridges.

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Regardless of region, area, culture, heritage, skin color, size, or even the amount of clothing one wears, these artists show that true beauty is confidence—in your sexuality, and in yourself.

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“Losing my hair is a very stressful, very public, slow, strung-out torturous experience.”

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Every pore on your skin, the shape of your cheekbones, the length of your lashes and the way your lip curls when you smile are unique to you and only you; and are ultimately the things that make you beautiful.

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If you fixate on my image, not penetrating beyond my exterior, you miss my value. The beauty is in the message of my soul.

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Beauty isn’t defined by our appearance, its defined by our minds, our souls and ourselves.

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What I see as beautiful is not the same as what you recognize as beautiful, and I have no place demeaning you because our minds interpret the world around us differently.

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Fat isn’t just an insult, or a word, or a joke. Being fat doesn’t just destroy you on the outside, it destroys you in the inside too.

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You don’t need to look like you belong on the cover of a magazine to be attractive.

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We have to start complimenting girls on their intelligence, courage, determination and good heart instead of always trying to find beauty on their outside appearance.