Charlotte, the self-esteem stuff is something that doesn't have to paralyse you, okay? You won't ever see yourself the way other people see you. Because... there's always too much baggage. I have been here for close to two decades at this point and still feel like a fraud, and an imposter. Every time I say anything. Like nothing I say really matters, and people are just trying to make me feel good. So I get where you're coming from, sweetie. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and the hardest thing to get to grips with is that maybe people see things in you that you don't see in yourself. Because you can't.
It doesn't mean it isn't there to see. Only that you can't see it. Sometimes it takes other people to see it for you. To show you the things you can't get past in your own head.
I want to give you a giant hug, sweetie. You are not what you think you are. You matter, to a lot of people. Even if you can't see it.
