I recall feeling a brief pang of despair when I fastened the button on the size 16 trousers, which was pretty ridiculous in hindsight. The trousers looked amazing on me. I smiled when I looked myself up and down in the mirror. I felt super positive about my body in those size sixteens. Why, oh, why would I let the fact that the pants had a "16" threaded onto its tag bother me? Because we are told that the perfect body is anything under a 6. And that's BS.

Our bodies are all shaped very differently. The way our hips slide into one pair of pants may be completely different when we slide on another. Pants/jeans also come in different shapes, cuts, etc. They are as unique as we are. To say one size is better than another is pretty silly, since there really is no definite size. Besides, what matters is how we feel when we look in the mirror, not when we glance at the tag.

 I'd look like skin and bones in a size 6.