I make sure I do the same for my friends. Whenever I am undermining my skills or settling for less, my female friends, especially those in the same industry always back me up. For every voice in the world that tries to hold stereotypical standards of beauty, we need a voice that tells us we are perfect the way we are.Īccording to a 2019 study by Harvard Business Review, women who have strong female connections are more likely to have successful careers. And it isn’t easy to overcome body image issues. We hype each other up because honestly, even the woman who seems to be most confident can have bouts of self-doubt. I encouraged her to post it because who cares if your arms look big? Who cares if you think your waist isn’t of the size our society deems beautiful? Why should we be restricted by the walls patriarchy wants to build around us? As I write this, a friend of mine sent me her picture asking if she should put it up on Instagram because she thought her arms look too big in it. Have you ever met a woman who has in her entire life never wanted to change anything about her body? Every woman I have ever known wants to (or wanted to) “fix” something about her appearance because it doesn’t agree with society’s definition of beautiful. Here’s why we should have-and be the kind of-friends who hype each other.ġ) They make you feel comfortable in your own skin I love women who hype each other up because they exactly know why it is important. If you take a quick analysis of your Instagram feed, it is often your girlfriends, your female acquaintances who are hyping you up-whether you share a picture, putting aside the nagging voice of our society that inflates the so-called imperfections or if you share something you feel excited about. They have been a perennial source of support and it fills my heart when they say the same about me.Īnd this is often exhibited in ways big and small. I have girlfriends who have grown up with me, who worked with me, who studied with me and who I met by chance. Realising how precious female friendships are, I have been fortunate enough to have girlfriends that passed the test of time and geographical distance. We go through our share of ups and downs we fight, we make up but we never stop having each other’s back. Remember when Carrie says in Sex and the City that maybe our soulmates are our girlfriends? She was right because it’s so true! These are the women who understand us, support us and hype us up when self-doubts are always lurking in the back of our heads, waiting to creep in.
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