I spend a lot of time looking at myself... ... That makes sense due to the nature of my work perhaps haha, but even before then, even as a kid, I spent hours staring at my reflection. ... If there’s a mirror nearby, I will watch me talk to you in it, instead of talking directly to you. ... Narcissistic much?? Hahaha! ... I spend too much time though, looking through my images, and lamenting how beautiful I am, and how mistreated I’ve been, instead of celebrating all that is me. ... I have built my whole life with the identity of Cinderella, the beautiful, suffering one that nobody sees. ... And so even now when I see my own beauty my heart breaks with how unrecognized it’s been. ... I’d like to stop doing that. ... I’d like my thoughts to stop after “I’m beautiful” and erase the parenthesis of “(..so why doesn’t anyone love me..?)” ... I’ve built a life out of feeling sorry for myself. ... Even my grammie verbalizes the identity of me as the sweet little girl who everyone mistreated. ... But that is not who I wish to choose to be. ... The mistreatment of others does not tarnish the beautiful person I am meant to be. ... How then to separate the two? I’m asking sincerely. How do I look at myself and embrace my beauty without also seeing all this immense pain? ... Perhaps that’s not the goal. ... Perhaps I’m meant to embrace all of me, the yin and yang. ... But even my beauty I’ve turned in to a reason to feel sorry for myself... ... And I’d like to stop. ... I’d like to replace pity.. with power.. ... And it is within my power to stop focusing on the few in my life who, despite loving me, have treated me as worthless, or whom have blamed me for their own pain, and instead focus on the literal THOUSANDS of people I have met all around the world who recognize and love me for the beautiful, kind, caring and creative young woman that I am (and the powerful rich bitch that I am becoming).. ... All day every day, love surrounds me. ... The universe, God, my bestest self, all love the holy shit out of me. ... I love me. ... And I’m figuring out the rest from there. ... You’re beautiful, babygurl. ... You’re beautiful. Period. ... XoXo #thisjustjin (at Boston, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGM9KwhpJt/?igshid=1sixt3wpuac49















