There is nothing crazy about Uzo Aduba's message of self-love.

The "Orange is the New Black" star wrote a powerful story for Seventeen's June/July 2016 issue about her path toward acknowledging and valuing her beauty. Aduba explains that she "never dated" in high school and didn't fit in with her small New England town's "beauty ideal" ("traditional and seemingly flawless: Blonde hair, blue eyes, legs for days," she wrote).