SKORCH Feb | Mar 2017 - Body Love Issue | Page 59

Skorch

INTERVIEW

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Body love is something that everyone should have for themselves . Why is it then so difficult to truly achieve , understand and feel it ? The term has been thrown around and twisted in a countless amount of ways for quite some time . It is a positive term , which literally has the word love it in . Whether you call it “ body positivity ,” “ self love ” or “ body love ,” it ’ s all relatively similar . In its purest form , it ’ s simply to have love for one ’ s body and self , unapologetically . For so many people , this is a hard pill to swallow . I know for myself it definitely was . Our whole lives , we are shown and told through , at the very least , the media that our bodies should not be loved , that we are far from perfect and that only a few very lucky people get to live up to the ideals and standards that have been set to be acceptable .