I Used to Be Jealous of Pretty Girls Until I Grew Up

These are the confessions of an ex-hater.

Nia Simone McLeod
The Brain is a Noodle
2 min readNov 10, 2021

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As a child, I thought that pretty girls were the worst.

This disgust was rooted in jealousy. Since middle school, I’ve seen a clear divide between how guys treated me and how guys treated the pretty popular girls. I lost sleep wondering why God didn’t make me hot.

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Nia Simone McLeod
The Brain is a Noodle

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