About Day 18

Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.

I've got two.

First thing:

I'm brown.

For the longest time I thought being brown was a synonym of being inferior.

In Peru, if your skin is lighter than normal you get more friends.

At least it was that way in my HS.

It didn't help that when I came to Utah for the first time, my roommates were racist.

I had just left home and wanted to be accepted,

but they would eat my food, 

hide my stuff,

laugh at me 

and kick the bathroom door when I was inside.

I was so close to going back home for good.

Second thing:

I'm fat.

I'm so self-conscious about my weight.

Same thing.

In Peru, if you're fat, you're not popular.

So I didn't have a lot of friends in HS.

And it was hard to find nice clothes.

I'm considered obese in Peru.

Because girls usually look like this.

Yeah, not me.