Famous For Nothing

***REPOST***

Lauren Chamberlain is one of the best softball players in the world, and as good a role model as any kid of any gender could ask for. She decided to pose n**e for ESPN. First, if you think this is pornographic, get off my timeline. Second, here's why she did it: "I said yes for the girls around the world who might see the issue and see someone who looks like them -- someone who's thicker, bigger, not as jacked as the typical athlete -- and that could give them that boost to love their bodies. Any time I went against my body and didn't give it what it needed in an attempt to achieve a societal norm, I let myself down. Sometimes, in high school and early college when I was dealing with insecurities about my body, not eating was disrespectful to my body. Not giving it what it needs to perform in order to achieve a certain look. If we're being honest, it just became stupid at a certain point. You're after this unattainable look, this Instagram look, and it's not achievable. I still deal with that insecurity. How am I not shaped and curved like that Instagram model? But you know what? She can't hit a ball like me or move like me. She can't do what I can do.”

Make it. Write it. Create it. Do the thing that inspires YOU. Even if it’s something that no one else is doing, especially if no one else is doing it. Your ideas and words have value and power, but only when you put them positively into the world.

Thank you will never be big enough. 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

Happy International Women's Day to all the women fighting to change the world perceives our strengths. We are all only as strong as the women we stand with, support and nourish. Heres to another year lifting each other up!