Archive: When Was the Last Time You Loved Your Body?

From the TI archives — originally published November 2014.

All of us have been there: we want to change our ears, our forehead, the big butt, the flabby arms, the thin lips… maybe grow more hair. The list is endless. With social media's burgeoning influence and photos taken on every occasion, we all want to look beautiful, to look like stars of the celluloid.

But think about it: beauty is what you feel inside. Let us embrace and love ourselves, whatever form or color we are blessed with.

The Jubilee Project — the filmmaking collective known for feel-good short films — captured this in a video that asked a simple question: why do children's attitudes toward their bodies differ so completely from adults'? Watch a child describe what they love about themselves, and the contrast with the adult list of grievances is startling. The video is an invitation to awaken the child in us.

Twelve years on, the pressure the 2014 piece described has only intensified — the filters, the algorithms, the endless comparison machine. Which makes the original point more, not less, urgent: the body you've been given is the one you've got. It deserves better than a complaint list.

Watch: Jubilee Project video on loving your body