Do teenagers naturally have a low self esteem?

I am not fishing for compliments but I'm a 15 year old teenager and sometimes I just feel really really ugly. Everyone compliments me and stuff but I feel like there lying. Then I have my days when I actually think I look decent. Do I feel this way because of my hormones?

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  • No, it's because we're used to seeing advertisements of models with makeup and photoshop on magazines that we want ourselves to look like that.

    At times I wish I looked like Marco Reus haha.

  • No. I'm 15 years old too and I feel great about myself. Life couldn't be better. It's just about how you handle yourself.

    I don't know whether you're a male or female, but I'm a male. Every day I get up, I look in the mirror, and I tell myself "You are an awesome motherf*cker!"

    You don't have "naturally" low self esteem, and you certainly don't have low self esteem because you're a teenager. Blaming it on something so silly as your age is pretty pathetic, to be honest. I'm not trying to attack you, but let's be real with ourselves for a moment. You're almost saying "Every 15 year old ever has low self esteem," and that just can't be true! Look, I'm a living, breathing example! You just gotta quit moping around and grow up! Take life by the horns, you know? No "step at a time" BS just do it! Screw the consequences, just go out on a limb! Just lose yourself in life!

  • Loads of people feel that way. Just try to make yourself feel better. Like what is it you don't like about yourself? Do you want a different hairstyle? Do you wear makeup? It's rare that people are just naturally amazingly gorgeous. Even people like Adriana Lima or Megan Fox look average without some tweaking

  • Yeah pretty much unless they were like coddled by their parents their whole life and like put in beauty pagents and crap. Most people think badly of themselves, it's just kind of the way most kids are. I'm kind of similar but with me I'm just concerned about how old I look, I get told I don't look like a little kid but sometimes I feel like people are lying to me, too. It's perfectly normal, I'm sure that you look fine.

  • LOL. Yes, it is fairly normal for this to happen in the teens, especially at your age it happened to me. I never really thought myself ugly but i didnt have much confidence. I think it happens to most teens in a way, its a weird time.

  • True once I got to my 20's I no longer had low self esteem.

    Just look at that face.

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  • Yeah. Most of the ones that seem like they're totally confident are just faking it.

  • Possibly, but you should love yourself because you're going to be in the same body all your life.

  • That sounds about normal for your age (though it still sucks while it's happening, regardless of the reason).

    *comically exaggerated hug*

  • id say half a them do and the other half has too much self esteem

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