I feel like I'm living a lie most of the times. I tell other girls they should accept themselves no matter what.
No matter what size.
No matter what shape.
No matter what supposed flaw they think they have.
Yet my worst fear, the thing I am most terrified of? Picking Leena up and having it accidentally lift my shirt up for the world to see my belly.
I am constantly on edge about this when we go out in public.
We are used to seeing celebrities with "perfect," tinie tiny bodies only 6 weeks after having a baby. We are used to the photoshop perfect that is displayed all over magazines and cable. We are used to the "perfect" that a personal trainer pushing you to work out like a mad woman, away from precious time with your baby and a ton of money could buy.
The reality of it is, most of us still have signs of carrying our baby for nine months. Are we expected to have bodies as tight as Janice Dickinson's face?
Even for those women who haven't had a child, are they expected to be trim, fit and "perfect?"
And who's the authority on what is trim and fit?
My point is, I think as a whole, the society of non celebrity status mommies and non mommies, that we just don't have all the time in the world to dedicate to working out and some of us, GASP like having curves.
I'm all for working out to be healthy. It is good for your body, not only physically on the outside but mainly for your health on the inside. But we shouldn't have to feel like we need to hide in a cave when we aren't in "tip top" shape.
Take care of your body and accept myself.
That is my task at hand among another million things in a day.
And we need to be brave and see more women shapes in the world. We are so used to ideals, dreamt up by some half baked man I'm assuming, that we find anything other than that unacceptable to see in our world.
I can't put this blog out there if I don't practice what I preach.
I am accepting my belly.
I am a mom.
And I am proud of my belly dang it!
Peace and Love
No matter what shape.
No matter what supposed flaw they think they have.
Yet my worst fear, the thing I am most terrified of? Picking Leena up and having it accidentally lift my shirt up for the world to see my belly.
I am constantly on edge about this when we go out in public.
We are used to seeing celebrities with "perfect," tinie tiny bodies only 6 weeks after having a baby. We are used to the photoshop perfect that is displayed all over magazines and cable. We are used to the "perfect" that a personal trainer pushing you to work out like a mad woman, away from precious time with your baby and a ton of money could buy.
The reality of it is, most of us still have signs of carrying our baby for nine months. Are we expected to have bodies as tight as Janice Dickinson's face?
Even for those women who haven't had a child, are they expected to be trim, fit and "perfect?"
And who's the authority on what is trim and fit?
My point is, I think as a whole, the society of non celebrity status mommies and non mommies, that we just don't have all the time in the world to dedicate to working out and some of us, GASP like having curves.
I'm all for working out to be healthy. It is good for your body, not only physically on the outside but mainly for your health on the inside. But we shouldn't have to feel like we need to hide in a cave when we aren't in "tip top" shape.
Take care of your body and accept myself.
That is my task at hand among another million things in a day.
And we need to be brave and see more women shapes in the world. We are so used to ideals, dreamt up by some half baked man I'm assuming, that we find anything other than that unacceptable to see in our world.
I can't put this blog out there if I don't practice what I preach.
I am accepting my belly.
I am a mom.And I am proud of my belly dang it!
Peace and Love
