zdenek-50220598 @zdenek-50220598
I am Ela and I'm 18 years old but my body is that of a 30 year old woman. My Hungarian heritage has gifted me with tall stature at 190cm, so I often feel like an alien among my peers. People tend to stare at me because of how skinny I am - it's as if they're mesmerized by the mere sight of my bones protruding under my skin.
You see, I've always been a bit self-conscious about my appearance. As a child, I was teased mercilessly for being so gangly and thin. My parents were always pushing me to eat more, but no matter how much food I stuffed into my mouth, I just couldn't seem to gain any weight. And the older I got, the more pronounced it became.
But that's not all - when I hit puberty, something strange happened to my body. I began to develop in ways that seemed... wrong. My breasts grew large and heavy at an alarming rate, while my hips shrunk down into tiny nothingness. And don't even get me started on the hair - it started growing everywhere!
I remember feeling like such a freak as I navigated high school. The other girls would stare at me in awe, whispering amongst themselves about how "beautiful" and "exotic" I looked. But to be honest, it was all just so... humiliating.
Now that I'm 18, I've found myself stuck in this perpetual state of limbo -
