Sara Geurts, 31, has a rare skin ailment, but that doesn’t stop her from loving herself and spreading body-positive messages to those in need. She has decided to grin brighter than her situation and wants to explain what it was like growing up differently. “You’re beautiful and you can achieve whatever you want,” Geurts says to herself.
She has a rare skin condition.
A beauty campaign wholly altered her life.
Geurts submitted her tale for the Love Your Lines campaign in 2015. The project honors skin “imperfections.” People were bringing in stories about their conditions, along with photographs. The #LoveYourLines campaign supported and promoted Geurts’ narrative.
She admits that her skin was her biggest insecurity, and that she sought to hide it throughout high school. She claimed that she didn’t want to talk about it since she “was living a lie.” Her narrative is about millions of other people who are suffering with their own thoughts and body image, not just herself.
She started to slowly embrace her beauty.
Looking back, Geurts said she feels like a completely different person. It’s difficult for her to grasp why she didn’t like her body or her disease for so long. “With every opportunity, I noticed my strength, growth, and transformed perspective,” she told me.
Geurts stated that it took a long time to gain the confidence she has now, despite the fact that she already has a large social media following and has appeared in a short film. In an essay for The Mighty, Geurts highlighted how a failed relationship in her early twenties forced her to confront how her body image concerns were affecting both herself and people around her.
She took it upon herself to break fashion stereotypes.
Geurts decided to pursue photography and modeling rather than hiding in order to broaden the notion of beauty as defined by the fashion and beauty industries. “My goal is to break society’s obvious impediments to excellence. “Barriers that subliminally tell us to be perfect in all aspects of life, work, social, and personal interactions,” she explained.
