you are a pretty girl..but you would be prettier if you lost some weight....

Growing up I was never skinny I've had problems with my weight my whole life. I think the root of this is my parents breaking up and mom getting a health nut boyfriend. I enjoy healthy foods dont get me wrong, but once he moved in everything was "bad for you": milk cheese loaf bread yogurt and the list goes on. My whole diet was switched over-night,until the weekends when i would go to my dad's house. I think my father was so scared that i would like my moms boyfriend over him he would give me everything that  i wasnt allowed at moms house:::: candy,sweets,red meat.. basically anything i wanted which helped me have an unhealthy relationship with food. The more i think about it the i realize i would eat as much "junk" as i could on the weekend because i knew during the week i wouldnt get anything like it. Once i got older my mother who is a slim size 4, would always pressure on me to lose weight. "you're such a beautiful girl Marissa, you would be so much prettier if you lost weight" i feel like this is the worst thing she could say to me. I know she meant well but i still felt like she was ashamed to have a daughter that looks like me. My sister is the same size as her, after having two kids, and everyone talks about how much they look alike. not me just the black fat cow in the family no one believes I'm my mother's daughter. I'm writing this because i'm sure there are other girls out there who went through this growing up and I wanna let you know your pretty with the extra weight or not so don't let the words of your family get you down because in the end so mean well.