As a Mother’s Day tribute to her mom and daughter, plus-size model Denise Bidot wrote a letter to her daughter Joselyn explaining self-love and why she is perfect just the way she is.
In a Huffington Post video, Bidot began by telling Joselyn “You are perfect. From your curly hair to your beautiful brown skin and your mixed heritage — you are perfect.”
Next, the model discussed how she saw her mom struggle with body image issues and how all she wanted her to realize was that she was beautiful. “I saw my mother struggle with her weight and body image, and I couldn’t understand why the most beautiful woman in the world didn’t know she was beautiful,” Bidot recalled. “All I wanted to say to her was, ‘You’re perfect,’” she added.
Bidot explained she struggled herself as a teenager but refused to let it make her miserable and rose above it because “deep down, she knew she was perfect.”
“We live in a world saturated with images of what women should look like. Skinny, curvy, white, black, made up, not made up. It will never stop,” she said. “But you have to silence the noise because there’s no wrong way to be a woman.” Watch the full video here.
The Puerto Rican beauty has been a longtime body-positive advocate, and has been very open about feeling comfortable in her own body and how her body settled at a size 14 even though she leads a healthy lifestyle. Bidot, who has worked with many of the fashion industry’s top clients, says that she is happy that the modeling industry is finally realizing that you do not need to be a certain shape, size or race to be considered beautiful and revealed that she is ok with being labeled “plus-size.”
“I think if they did go ahead and include a plus-sized angel, I think it would be such a huge statement from Victoria's Secret especially cause for so long, as a curvy woman, I haven't been able to shop there, able to fit in a lot of their stuff,” she told E! News last summer.
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