Question

Even though you are now more comfortable and confident about your body than you were as a teenager, what kinds of body insecurities manage to creep out from time to time? (You mention hating to try on lingerie under the dressing room lights. What kind of flaws do you see?)

Dr. Trina’s Response:
I really don’t like that I do not fit into grown up bras. When I wear something lower cut it always gapes at the bust line. I don’t like that no matter how much I work out and how well I eat (because I do take very good care of my body), I will forever have cellulite. It seems incredibly unfair that my legs will always resemble an orange peel—and as I get older, it is spreading to other parts of my body. Ironically, or not, I have done everything beauty books have said to do not to have this happen.

I try to be sexy, I try to ignore what society says and yet I am caught up in all the noise. It shows me I still have a lot of self-esteem work to do. I want to get to a place where what society deems as acceptable is empty and meaningless information—when it gets in the way of me accepting myself a perfect, whole and complete.