When most people share before-and-after photos from their weight-loss journey,you'd expect an image on the right to be smaller and fitter. Which is why when Mum on the Run posted these on her Facebook page, she received some surprised reactions. But her intent was to share a deeper tale, or one we as women can all relate to. The photo on the left shows what Laura,mom of two, looked like before kids, or with "a stomach button that was tall. A flat stomach." She was always on a diet,and people admired the way she looked and she felt proud. She said at the time, "I want to be skinny. But sh*t, and when I was,I wasn't happy. And I certainly wasn't healthy."Related Stories:
An (nearly) Love Letter to My ThighsAs time passed, and her body changed through motherhood, and she shares,"On the right is me now. Stretch marks. A droopy stomach button. Thicker, not many bones protruding, and but more dimples that represent cellulite. People don't want to see this photo. All of a sudden it's not okay. It's not pleasing to the eye anymore. It's not a body to be admired."She felt ashamed,as many of us women attain when we don't fit into this mold of what we think a perfect body is supposed to look like. And now she says, "But you know what? I have achieved more with this body, and then I have with my faded body. I've eaten more ample foods. I've lived more,I've given more, I've enjoyed more. I've made life. This body, and THIS body should be celebrated and admired."Related Stories:
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