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Hip & stretch marks.
I got ~*artsy*~ before I took a shower this morning.
This is absolutely beautiful. I love the stretch marks and the curves.
Stunning.
Stunning. I love bodies.
colorblock striped dress: torrid
black cardigan: asos curve
This is Me.
What with everything that’s happened to me this year… my relationship with my body has had to stand up to probably the most traumatic things a woman can go through… Pregnancy and Miscarriage… twice in one year… I battled though it… I’ve come out the other side and I haven’t gained a pound… I have days where I should make better choices, I have times where I should move more… but I am still healing right now… I will get back on my feet again… but that doesn’t imply I’m not happy with what I see in the mirror or what I grab in my hands.
I’ve always had a hard time loving the skin that I’m in… but when I found Tumblr almost 2 years ago it did something to me that no diet ever could do… it made me see my body differently. It made me love my curves, my rolls, lumps, my bumps, and my dimpled fatness.
I never thought that would be even possible…All it took was seeing images of other fat people looking happy and confident… funny how you never see that in regular media… fatness is equated with unhappiness, with ugliness in pretty much ever single way possible. The only fat people in mainstream channels are portrayed as people we should pity or laugh at, or failing that both. It’s no wonder the vast majority of us genuinely equate being thin with being happy or attractive… which in reality is ludacrios because I rarely come across a confident and happy thin person either also because of the pressure they are under to look a certain way! Ultimately no one wins.
The truth is, there are millions of fat people in this world… and believe it or not… some of them are actually believers of this radical notion that… IT IS OK TO BE FAT… Some of us still eat right most of the time like someone of a “normal weight” Some of us Exercise just the same amount as someone of a “normal weight” Some of us are as physically healthy as someone of a “normal weight“… A crazy notion to some, but it really shouldn’t be… because really it just comes down to the fact that EVERYBODY is different! So stop putting those that do suffer with health problems because they are overweight/underweight in with the masses of healthy all spectrum sized folk!
Whether you are finding Tumblrs’ Body Positive community for the first time… coming back to it for a second, or a staunch advocate of all of it’s ideas of what is beautiful, ie; Every body has the right to be and feel beautiful…. I want to say this…
Step back and look at your body, stare into your eyes, and tell yourself…
You got this!
Stand up and walk tall because nobody else can do that quite the way you can… and that my friend is a gift.
ugh 2busy being a stoic diva in bed to go 2 work
Actual babe
agreee
Oh, advertising…
Making women of all sizes feel inferior enough to purchase “quick-fixes” since the early 1900’s.
I can see a correlation between the “real women have curves” bullshit mindset and these types of weight-gain ads.
There is a pattern, a cycle happening here. We’re repeating the same kinds of body-shaming. Recognize.
The other reason why I think “Real women have curves” isn’t entirely a great slogan for the fat acceptance crowd is that we’ve culturally constructed curves to mean a body type not every fat bodied individual possesses. While I think my thick upper arms and my belly rolls count as curves, that’s certainly not the image mainstream society conjures at the word “curves.” As it is normatively contructed, “curves” equals a round booty and big tits. And not every fat girl has these. I know lots of fat girls who have flat chests and nearly non-existent asses. And I’ve heard them express their pain at being excluded from communities which celebrate fatness and “curves” because they don’t have the type of curves most people are talking about when they say, “Real girls have curves.”
So when I don’t feel comfortable using “Real women have curves” it’s not 100% about respecting the thin folks. It’s also about respecting the lived experiences of fat women who don’t self-identify with the word “curvy.” Let’s never forget there’s more than one fat body type, and each one presents its own struggles, and each fat body should be embraced in fat acceptance.
YOUR HAIR.
I MUST HAVE IT.
GIVE IT TO MEEEEEE. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
