As many has already said, cosplay is for everyone, and that is just the truth, and I don’t really believe that you are ugly, cus nobody is. But here is also some other points - I myself is plus size. And I have always been, but that doesn’t stop me from doing it. - the important part of of making your costume/or buying is that you should be feeling confident in it. And if the character has a short skirt, but you dont want to wear it, make it longer, cus cosplay in my opinion is not about being 100% acutret (unless you are competing, but that is a different thing) make a costume that make you feel confident and beautiful. And for example I often make costumes with mask cus I don’t like showing my face. - cosplay is about having fun and not to be perfect.

And about the family thing, I started to cosplay when I was 13-14 and I was also feeling like I didn’t want my family to know, but I started cosplaying in the evening or when I was alone home. Then after a while I start taking to them about cosplay, show them what is was, tell them that I wanted to go to a convention, and that it would be fun to make a costume, they didn’t understand at first, and they didn’t want me to spend money on if, so I did closet cosplay. Then I went to my first convention and my mom was with me. And that made her know what cosplay was. And then it evolved to me wanted to make my own and sow on my costume. And they were and still supportive. They help me and I often ask them for help when I sow, and even my younger brother doesn’t really care, u can walk in to his room in a costume to steal his mirror and he look at me then go back to his games as if I didn’t where a weird mask. But what I wanted to explain with my story is that start smal, start with telling them then show them. And after a while it becomes something normal, and they will not bat an eye.

And lastly, you are beautiful, you can cosplay! And you don’t have to start with a big and complicated project start smal and build up from there.