Here's Emily's letter...

Dear Adalyn,
My name is Elizabeth and I have been watching you for the past few months. Please don’t mistake me for a stalker though, because I’m not. I am just a simple bystander, observing the struggles of your generation (mostly the struggles of girls, since I too am a girl and know the emotions and struggles that you hide all to well).
From watching you I have noticed that you struggle with self-image more than anything, as do most teenage girls. You want so badly to look like the models on the covers of magazines, airbrushed and digitally beautified. But Adalyn, not even those models really look like that!
I know that you have heard the saying “beauty is only skin deep”, and for some that is sadly true. Some girls have “the look” and some have a body to die for, but all of those things are petty in comparison to what’s on the inside. But you, you don’t have to worry about your beauty being only skin deep. You have a beautiful face, a warm smile, and a great figure, but pushing physical beauty aside, you still will have a beautiful heart. You are honest and caring, not to mention modest.
What I’m really trying to say is that you have what so many girls really want, a genuine, God given beauty, that wasn’t produced by man made products.
“You were made with such care. Your skin, your body, and your hair are perfect just the way they are. There could never be a more beautiful you. Don’t buy the lies, disguises, and hoops they make you jump through. You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do. So there could never be a more beautiful you”
God made you in his own image, Adalyn, and in His eyes there are none more beautiful than you. If you haven’t gotten anything else from this letter please just know that God loves you no matter what you look like, and to Him everything about you is beautiful!

Elizabeth