8 Readers Share What They Love About Their Looks

What bash you similar astir the mode you look? Last week, we asked that question, and galore readers emailed america photos. Here, 8 women stock benignant eyes, curvy legs, and beardown noses…

Says Rebekah (above), who lives successful Tulsa, Oklahoma, “I consciousness truthful glowy successful the evening sun, similar it’s reflecting thing aureate successful me. I was made to bask.”

“I’m truthful grateful J.Lo deed it large erstwhile I was successful mediate school, due to the fact that I grew up reasoning my large Puerto Rican ass was a happening of beauty. I’ve besides recovered inspiration from abdominous activists, similar Virginia Sole-Smith and Aubrey Gordon. On my publication circuit past fall, a moderator snapped this photograph of maine — circular belly, the full soft, disposable bundle — and called maine ‘a bright, superb light.’ I look astatine it present and spot what she saw: my assemblage not arsenic thing that takes up space, but thing that offers it.” — Marian, Portland, Oregon

“I emotion my dimples! They’re pronounced, similar idiosyncratic stuck their fingers into a shot of clay erstwhile I was born. My maternal grandma (‘Nana’) besides had gorgeous precocious cheekbones and a wide face. Whenever I look successful the mirror, I spot her reflection successful mine, her agleam reddish lipstick kissing my cheeks, precisely wherever the divots are.” — Emma, New York City

“In precocious school, I walked crossed the signifier to judge my National Honors Society plaque, and my aunt said, appreciatively, ‘Oooh, look astatine them large legs!’ At the time, I was mortified. It took maine 20 years, but present I recognize the compliment. My curvy legs transportation the remainder of this assemblage beautifully. When it’s adjacent somewhat warm, I yell, ‘Sky’s out, thighs out!’ and enactment connected the shortest shorts I tin find.” — Abby, Chicago

“Small acheronian moles person been appearing since I deed my thirties; they’re dermatosis papulosa nigra, harmless moles communal among Black folks. I watched 3 tiny stars instrumentality their spot astatine the country of my eye, and I thought, however chill to person a look that’s inactive changing, a reminder to look up successful awe astatine the nighttime stars that guided our ancestors!” — Sarah, State College, Pennsylvania

“When I smile, my eyes get each squinty and fundamentally disappear. It’s my undeniable joy! Here, I’m with my kiddo connected a plane, and my children celebrating Tashlich by a stream during Rosh Hashanah.” — Jill, Cousins Island, Maine

“My masi (maternal aunt) was looking astatine daguerreotypes of Indian women and remarked, ‘They person specified intelligent faces, it’s their beardown noses.’ The women successful my household person beardown noses, too, and I thought that was the finest compliment a pistillate could person — to look intelligent!” — Sukhie, Seattle

“I emotion that I look kind. My two-year-old girl took this photo, above, portion we were chatting connected the couch. My eyes are focused connected her, I’m smiling, and my eyebrows are arched similar she’s telling maine the astir fascinating happening I’ve ever heard. I got truthful affectional erstwhile I saw this photo, due to the fact that it’s a stark opposition to however my parent looked astatine me. When my girl thinks of her childhood, I anticipation this is the look she sees successful her memories.” — Jenn, Vancouver

Thank you truthful overmuch for sharing!

P.S. Nine women stock their melodramatic hairsbreadth transformations, and 12 readers stock wherever they live.