This 23-year-old girl sadly says that she was never considered attractive when she was little, and it took until she was 16 for boys to even start paying her any attention.

In contrast, her Sister has always been incredibly stunning, and everyone fawned over her instead.

Her sister would get the compliments, while people would just comment about how she had grown up or looked different to them than her sister.

As this was all going on, her male classmates would tell her that she was not attractive at all, so when she did hit her teen years, she began making changes.

She changed her outfits, she wore makeup, and she finally began to feel more secure in her own skin.

She became somewhat popular, and people finally did pass compliments out to her, but none of the changes that she made changed the fact that she still felt incredibly hurt by being compared to her pretty sister.

It also didn’t help that her parents and her sister would tease her that she didn’t look good without makeup.

Also, her mom would always make comments about her weight, asking her if she should go to the gym and handing her smaller amounts of food.

“My parents never respected me or had any empathy for me at all, really,” she explained. “Now, I’ve grown into my look pretty well, and I often get compliments, but my mind will still forever be looking back on those comments wondering if I’ll ever be good enough.”

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“My Family still believes they’ve done nothing wrong, and whenever it’s brought up they say “it builds character “ in a sarcastic tone.”

Last month, her mom celebrated her birthday, and they had an enormous dinner with all of her Family Members present.

While at her mom’s party, some of her family members made a couple of compliments directed at her, but then her mom commented that her sister was “more naturally pretty” than she was.

She honestly couldn’t take it anymore and had a complete breakdown right there in the middle of the party. She sobbed, and she even said a couple of things she really didn’t mean to say in the heat of the moment. Her mom then ended up crying, and all the rest of their family members looked on in complete shock and alarm.

“I left straight after and haven’t returned calls from my parents since,” she said. “My sister said I did what I needed to do to heal and is being surprisingly supportive, but my mom’s brother sent me a long paragraph about how I need to grow up and can’t just throw tantrums when something upsets me.”

She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to melt down at her mom’s birthday party. What do you think?

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