Guaranteed to cheer you up on those ‘EURGHHH’ days (Photo: Mikhaila Nodel)

Here’s a super-cute way of helping girls with their self-esteem.

Mikhaila Nodel, a 16-year-old high school student from Brooklyn, New York, came up with these cartoons to help her female classmates feel better about their bodies.

Her Cosmic Cuties are a group of four feminist superheroes who deliver messages such as ‘All bodies are beautiful’ and ‘Rolls are normal.’

‘I kind of invented them as a species,’ Mikhaila told Women You Should Know. ‘They’re born from space dust and slow down the universe and fight sexist crime. They’re these feminist goddesses that watch over all women and are there to protect them.’




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(Photo: Mikhaila Nodel)

(Photo: Mikhaila Nodel)

After first creating them in art class, Mikhaila started publishing her drawings in zines and leaving them where other girls could find them. ‘A lot of teenage girls are really insecure about their bodies. I decided I wanted to make people’s day better… so I left copies of them in the girl’s bathroom so that people could just pick them up.’

As well as embracing all body shapes, the Cosmic Cuties tell girls that ‘If you don’t want to shave, that’s ok’ and ‘Stretchmarks are tiny lightning bolts.’

‘Body acceptance is really important to me because in middle school I was bullied a lot,’ Mikhaila explains. ‘Since then I’ve really rebuilt my self-esteem and I want to help other people do that, too.’

(Photo: Mikhaila Nodel)

‘I love it when someone comes to me after they’ve found it in the bathroom and they’re like ‘Wow, that really made me feel better…’ I guess that makes me feel great, too!’

Soon people starting posting the cartoons online, and Mikhaila now has a strong following on Tumblr. ‘I never would have thought that people would care about my art on the internet, but I just put it out there and got so much positive response,’ she says.

We’re expecting big things from this one.

(Photo: Mikhaila Nodel)

(Photo: Mikhaila Nodel)

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