Day 281: Celebrate Your Inner Beauty

This week Eastern is starting something new, Inner Beauty Week. All week several ladies are running  events that are celebrating how beautiful women are inside and out. Today, girls gathered in the Pence Union Building to recognize how lovely they are by taking pictures with a sign with a saying similar to, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

                                         

In addition, the ladies in charge of the event asked that everyone who took a picture also do something nice for a women that has empowered them. For me, I have so many phenomenal women in my life that it was hard to choose just one. However, there is one women that I may have just met recently that is so supportive and is just a superstar. Her name is Michelle Helmerick and she was my advisor for my Habitat For Humanity trip in Maui. While our trip was incredible, we also ran into some unforeseeable trouble. Michelle was such a trooper and made every student on the trip feel safe, loved and important. i don't think that any other person could have handled the situation better than she did. I am so blessed to have her in my life, still encouraging me to dream bigger.

P.S. Thursday evening at 7pm Stacy Nadeau, a Dove model, will be speaking about her experience in Showalter 109. If you didn't know Dove runs a campaign with real women to promote inner beauty. Hope to see you there!

God bless,

Kailee

Day 139: Abercrombie & Fitch Petition

Recently, the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch royally ticked off an immense amount of people. Why, you may ask? Well if you haven't heard, here is the break down. In the last week or so, Mike Jeffries made a statement/ announcement that A&F will not sell sizes for "fat kids", only the "popular kids". They will not sell clothing that is an XL or larger. Below is his portion of his statement.

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.”

Well A&E, you've rubbed me wrong for the last time. Like many others, I was outraged and couldn't believe that in this day and age someone would so blandly express discrimination and hatred. If they think any publicity is good publicity then they got what they wanted, because the news blew up with furious responses. Just yesterday I received an email from change.org asking me to sign a petition asking Mr. Jeffries for a very well deserved apology. I signed the petition and you can too, by clicking here.

And to all readers out there, please keep in mind that we are made the way we are for a reason. No matter shape or size, our bodies are beautifully made. Confidence is beautiful and if you love yourself and love who you are, then that is all that matters. Embrace your beauty, because there is no one else like you! 

God bless everyone,

Kailee