Health =/= Beauty

Happy Thursday to anyone reading this! (Haha what?) So anyways, we all know in the media and even in actual stores we almost always see health & beauty paired in the same sentence. As if being healthy is what makes you beautiful.  

Even in the body positive community I tend to see things along the line of "Healthy is the new beautiful" which suggest that your size 2-0 model has some type of illness whether it be anorexia or something completely unrelated to eating.  & as someone with a Chronic illness, I find it offensive. Why does the fact that I am sick have to impede on my beauty? I can still be fashionable, I can still want to put effort into my looks and I can still try to live life to the fullest.  We need to stop believing sick people can't be sexy. 

& to my Chronically Ill chicks & dudes especially if you are young. Do not for a second believe you are damaged goods because you are disabled.