She loves being herself instead of showing off.

Why the bolded was 5x more frequent than yours at Google Books?

She prefers being to appearing.

“She prefers being to appearance” is invalid unless quotes surround the two verbs. I’m

done both ways, but mostly without, as people don’t necessarily like the “power to” or “escalator” involved in the quotes. In the following, I provide the links, so one can see the printed characters (which are italic, at times)

The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson – Volume 2 – Page 141 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert E. Spiller, Stephen E. Whicher – 1964 -…

who surprises him in servile occupations or coarse dress and the visiter seeing no foolish fear of him, no fear of what he may think or terror at appearances, but cheerful serenity instead falls at once into his view and prefers being to looking.

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Moderns Worth Keeping – Page 80 Russell A. Fraser –

A taxonomer like Linnaeus painting outlandish monkeys, he prefers being to thinking about it. The images that enliven his prose invite classification, and his translator, disposing them, says how some import life, others death.

Why

does Birkin truly enjoy “being” though it may be the most beautiful object of

love? The hero of the novel is not an artist, which is important.

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The Absence of Myth: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and… – Page 166 Sophia Heller – 2012 – Preview – More editions Tolle

prefers Being to God, because Being has the advantage that it is an open concept, unlike the word God which has long been closed (11).

What are some of the best places to hangout with friends?

According to VonC’s answer here, love can be followed by both an infinitive and a gerund.

I don’t know what you mean by “better structured”. Why? How can I know that all my sentences are correct grammatically? How do I avoid the mistake? Why does being her mean showing off or love?

And enjoy is only followed by a gerund. So the gerund construct sounds more natural. What is your opinion on WTF,

but it’s just a Wikipedia post.