The Dove Beauty Around us campaign came out in 2009. At the time that the campaign was released, I was enormously pregnant, and just newly wed. My hormones were all over the place, and I was feeling miserable about my looks, especially since my husband was already starting to reveal how shallow he was by mocking my size.
This ad, which shows women of every color, shape, and size, struck a chord with me. As a child and teenager, my grand passion was ballet, until I was fifteen years old, and, due to an abnormal growth spurt, of five inches in as many days, I developed severe knee problems, and was forced to give up my dreams of becoming the country's next prima ballerina. Pair that with asthma that just worsened as I was unable to exercise, and my tiny physique was gone.

For the past eighteen years I have struggled with my self-image, and my husband leaving me for a woman half my size just added to it.
This commercial, with its declaration that beauty can be found in those of all proportions, from gamine to rubenesque, cheers me up every time that I see it, as well as prompting me to run to the nearest store for a bar of Dove.