You are Beautiful...Even When You Think Your Butt Tells You Otherwise

     I recently came across a photo on Facebook that a male friend had liked(verb). There was one comment from another girl giving her approval to say the least writing "Love it!". The picture was posted by a friend of his and I noticed his friend's privacy setting does not allow unknown Facebookers to comment or like..This is a shame because I was about to rubber neck, finger snap in Z formation my opinion the heck out of that picture! I decided to save my comment and get this off my chest as a post on my blog. These things always end up working out don't they? At the bottom of this post is the picture I am referring to if you would like to check it out.
     If I understand correctly, the nature of the photo is to get across that having a big butt, especially one that has been worked on due to exercising is a good thing, empowering, blah, blah, blah. Let me say, I am not a big butt hater. If I am going to be completely transparent about it,I wish I had a big butt! A butt that, as the ad describes, "round and like the letter c". 
I find it strange, and annoying quite frankly, how the J.Los, Beyonces, Kim K.s, and woman in this ad, are thin, slender and pretty toned yet, because of their lower body parts which they had no part in developing (try as hard as you want ladies, working out will not give you a back bump like J.Lo's) they are considered not just a new kind of beauty but, a beauty that if you don't have as a female then somehow your body is not as noteworthy, important, valuable. Don't get me wrong, I do believe they are beautiful women and have beautiful bodies. The problem is, this "big butt movement" as I am calling it, isn't born of a humble place of showing all women that they and their bodies are beautiful, it developed from a defensive response as it seems, to the "model thin" movement. 
     I grew up struggling with my weight. I was a pretty lean kid until I hit fourth or fifth grade. I got in shape as a freshman but after going to a different school, I put on the weight and maxed out at 210 lbs until I decided to make a change. I could go on with details but, I'll stick to the point. In my adult life I have been overweight, slender, and even toned (for about a month). I have never had the trunks or butt that those women mentioned before have. Does this make me less of a admirable woman physically speaking? 
     This post is not to support and defend a certain body type and it is not to bash or critique a different body type. This post is to widen the gap of beautiful to all of us. Thin girls with big butts, big girls with flat butts, big girls with big butts, thin girls with flat butts, tall girls, short girls, medium height and every mix in between! As human women, for the majority if not all of us, it's as natural as breathing to compare ourselves to other women which is why these body promotions about only curvy is beautiful or only slim is beautiful is so dangerous. I understand that every ad can't logically have every single different body type in every single ad and I am not even saying that the women in ads need to change (that is a whole other battle in and of itself.) What I am saying is don't fall for ad's or gimmicks that as a female you have to attain a certain type of body or physical attribute especially ones that you may not even be able to produce. If you have healthy body goals more power to you, I do not mean to stifle you about having healthy goals. I do however, stifle you from clinging to an image that you think will make you of more worth than you already are. As Dr. Seuss said "today you are you, that is truer than true, there is no one alive that is you-er than you!" Be you and be a proud representative!