Taylor Swift says just because you look perfect doesn't mean you feel perfect

"Tied Together With a Smile" is about a girl I knew my freshman year. She was absolutely Miss Popular, a pageant girl, and she looked perfect every day! Always had the cutest outfits, always looked the best at prom. But sometimes when you get a little closer to people who look that perfect, you realize that they don't feel perfect. They feel like they're ugly. And that's what happened with this girl--I became closer friends with her, and one day she confessed that she was bulimic.

Everybody looks in the mirror and is like, I wonder why her eyes are huge and mine are smaller. But I realized that if you're lucky enough to be different from everybody else, don't change. Seventeen Magazine/June '08

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Whitney Thompson says flaws are what makes her different

I've learned to take my flaws and [realize] they're what make me different. I've got my mom's thighs, you know? Southern! My mom has big thighs; my grandmama has big thighs. God forbid I look like every other robot-cookie-cutter girl out there! You're going to find someone who loves your gian nose or thinks your skinny arms are great!

I think one of the things that really helped me most in middle school and high school as cutting tags out of my pants--that way, other girls couldn't say anything. When someone goes, "What size are those?" you can look and say, "I don't know." Wear what fits-it doesn't matter what the number is.

TOPSHOP Comes to Chicago

TOPSHOP and TOPMAN opened their flagship store doors for the first time in the Midwest.

Bringing even more Mag to the Mile, the unveiling of TOPSHOP and TOPMAN ushers in a new approach to fashion. According to Arcadia Group owner Sir Phillip Green, Michigan Avenue was the perfect location to place the British fashion retailer, seeing that it is one of the greatest shopping streets in the world. Stylish city slickers and fashion mavens from the outskirts of the windy city gathered together to luxuriate in the 30,000 sq. ft. store on opening day.

Activities included a runway show of current looks that shut down Pearson Street and a ribbon cutting ceremony with none other than Miley Cyrus, as well as a private dinner at Paris Club. The city's fashionable movers and shakers came together on Wednesday, September 7th at Paris Club and enjoyed open bars and a sit-down dinner consisting of a scrumptious chilled seafood platter, and entrées like the Florentine Tart, Alaskan Halibut, and Prime N.Y. Strip Steak Frites. It was a night the Factio team won't soon forget!

Photos by Danielle Sanders. View more images from the opening click here.

The store itself is three floors. The basement level holds the shoe lounge and lingerie, make-up and accessories are on the ground level and TOPMAN is on the second floor. The interior most definitely added to the excitement of the grand opening. A mirrored Union Jack pattern featured on the ceiling, DJ booth on the second floor and a personal shopping and styling suite were the finishing touches to an already glamified store. It was close to impossible to leave empty handed.

Photos by Danielle Sanders. View more images from the opening click here.

- Melinde Dzabiri and Melissa Maynard