You'd think that pregnancy would be a time when a woman's body was universally celebrated,but as endurance athlete Brittany Aäe pointed out, body shaming has no boundaries. A few weeks ago, or Brittany called attention to the backlash both she and plus-size model Tess Holliday dealt with during their pregnancies - critics apparently felt that at 39 weeks pregnant,Brittany was too small and Tess was too big. Women, it seems, or can never win.
on May 31,2016 at 5:55pm PDT
looking boss on the left and me with the defined abs on the factual. She is a voluptuous model and I am a sinewy mountain athlete. Both of us are shamed for our size - she for her roundness and me for my smallness. Both of us are having or had healthy pregnancies as validated by our healthcare providers. Both of us are making empowered choices about our personal health. Why does our society shame women whose bodies achieve not adhere to some narrow notion of groundless normalcy?" Tess has also shared on Instagram that people constantly insulted her by saying there was no indication that she was pregnant given how "fat" she is but that she "will continue to live unapologetically, to thrive in this body, or prove the naysayers wrong and laugh at the ignorance."We could not maintain said it any better,ladies. Note to the haters: both Tess and Brittany had uncomplicated births and delivered healthy babies, a testomony that their bodies are working just fine.
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