Response to blog-Beauty vs Confidence

I am responding to Becky-Jo's blog in which she asks" But can we have confidence in ourselves without being beautiful or attractive? Does being thin have anything to do with confidence?"

  It is funny because if you asked me  this question a few yeaers ago I would have said yes that being thin had EVERYTHING to do about confidence. As I grew up,however, and became less naive, I realized that confidence is just being comfortable in your own skin, not lettign what people say affect you and living life according to your own rules. When I was going through my weight-confidence issue, I would look at people who were bigger than me and wonder, how could they live like that, aren't they ashamed. I apologize if this post offends anyone, but I don't think like that anymore. You see, the thing is, I was conditioned to think that being beautiful meant thin, I was told that to be loved I had to be thin and being loved was one of the most important things in my life. Now that I am over the verbal abuse and negative conditioning I received as a child I realize what I believe those full-figured people lived their life by, which is confidence and beauty come from within.  If you have a great personality and are happy with yourself that is all that matters. Beautiful or attractiveness isn't as superficial as people make it out to be or at least it shouldn't be. Confidence, like beauty comes from within, confidence comes from knowing that you are able to make a difference some way or the other/ help people. Many people do make thinness and "attractiveness" rule how they think about themselves and how much confidence they have which shouldn't be the case. Confidence and beauty starts within and then shines through to the surface. This is why they say beauty is skin deep.  With that said, What do you think about the saying Beauty is skin deep and do you believe it?