Ok but like this is also kind of a bad move. They just want to see what they look like. Sure it’s great to love your body but if I wanted to see what I looked like as a centaur it wouldn’t be “oh human bodies are great”
Except she specifically said she wanted to see what it was like to "be pretty for once". She's obviously got some issues with the way she looks and he decided it was better to address that line specifically rather than fulfill her request
I get where you’re coming from dragonbaby- sometimes it can be fun, or helpful, or inspiring to “play dress up.” If someone thinks they want plastic surgery they may be wise to use a program to show what it would look like- sometimes you just want to throw on an “age” or “makeup” or “gender swap” or “muscle” or whatever filter or edit for Funsies- just to see what you’d look like- and it isn’t really practical to pay for decent color contacts just do you can scratch an itch to see what you’d look like with all black eyes or something. But- yeah. I think in this case the askers heart isn’t in the right place. It’s not for funsies- it’s because she doesn’t think she’s beautiful. She is. She could be thinner and beautiful or larger and beautiful- but she’d still be beautiful.
So basically- she is asking out of poor self image and it would likely be more harmful to her than good for her to do what she asks- until she can learn to live herself anyway. Weight change, we get old, we get scars or go bald or whatever else. So self love can’t be conditional on the state you are in at any moment- it has to be a love of who you are. Otherwise people lose the weight or whatever- maybe like the way they look and feel better, maybe are happy at how people treat them now- but they still dont love themselves just because the scale moved. That’s a bad resume for love and life because people without self love tend to get taken advantage of- couple that with sudden and new attention and...
Many hard lessons have been learned by folks who then have to not just spend the time learning to live themselves, but have to overcome the baggage and live with the fallout of what happened in between being where they thought they wanted and being emotionally ready for what they want. A lack of self love is a hole that people will keep trying to fill. Losing the weight doesn’t do it for most people. I’ve seen it many times where they are still unhappy “thin” and commonly sex, work, or fitness become obsessions to try and fill the void- if they don’t go back to food for comfort and then undo all the work and enter a spiral of loathing. It’s a bad recipe. I think he gave her what she needed- she needs to love herself.
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