I hate my body. I’m not overweight, nor am I too skinny and the proportions of my body are fine with me, instead though, I have permanent and hideous scars that are etched into my body. As a child, my father abused me in every form and now I am left with not only the emotionally scars, but the physical scars that maim my body. Cigarette burns, knife cuts, words like ‘worthless’ carved into my skin. I hate it. I disgust myself and everything about me for it. I wish I thought myself as beautiful and had the courage to let people see them.