Mum sees something in her daughter's photo that makes her think

Jessica Hoag was messing around with her youngest daughter when her middle child decided to take a photo.

And when her daughter showed her the photo, Jessica, who is a mum of three, saw something she had never seen before. 

Taking to Facebook, the Chicken Bacon Ranch blogger explained that when she first looked at the photo she immediately saw a "huge pooch", "nasty hair", a "double chin" and a "forced smile." 

However, what her little girl saw changed her whole thinking. 

"Mommy, look at this! You look so beautiful right now!!" her middle child said. 

"Someday I'm gonna be pretty as you! You're a good mommy!" 

But Jessica could only see flaws, imperfections and mess.

"I see a huge pooch that carried three babies and lingers still, four years after it has been retired," she wrote beside the photo.

"I see nasty hair that hasn't been washed in a week, surviving on dry shampoo and bobby pins. 

"I see a double chin and a grin I forced when I realised she was taking a picture. 

"I see a pointy nose I've always hated, amplified in a profile view."

Her daughter on the other hand couldn't see any of that. all she could see was a happy mum, who was wearing her favourite jeans and playing with her younger sister. Her daughter could only see the things that actually matter. 

"She just sees a good mommy, pretending to put on makeup, because the littlest little begged," Jessica wrote.

"She sees mommy in a new shirt and her favourite jeans, 'dressing up' to take her girls to a movie. Dressing up means pants with buttons, even if you have to lay flat on the bed to button them. 

"She sees a counter full of things that make mommy happy. She sees glass fish and a sunset picture. It's not clean, but it's mommy's special spot."

And it was only after Jessica truly looked at the photo through her daughter's eye did she see what she need to see. 

"I think the best thing I can do, in my quest for self-acceptance, is just to see myself through my child's eyes more often. As the littlest little's shirt reads, I may not be perfect, but I'm pretty awesome."

Well said, Jessica!