At some point in our lives, many of us would have looked down at the lumps and marks on our bodies and felt negative emotions, not positive.
Robyn Lawley wants to change that.
The Australian model has shared a positive body image post that should have every woman fist-pumping.
“Each line holds a story of growth and change that my body has gone through, once when I was a teen and grew hips suddenly and of course when I grew most of my height they are etched all over my body,” she captioned the Instagram photo of her stomach with visible stretch marks.
“The other in fact are way more important they taught me to re love my body and they grew when my baby daughter did inside of me. These are not lines I should be ashamed of these are lines I should be empowered by!”
Spot on.
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Honestly, I get a bit sick of the whole 'love your body' thing. I really don't think it's necessary to love and adore every single part of your body. For example, I'm not 100% enamoured with the surgical scars I have on my stomach. Yes, I could go around calling them battle wounds from the autoimmune disease that I've got that would have killed me if not for the surgery, but I just kind of look at them in the mirror and then move on, knowing that they're there and that I'm not totally happy about that.
I think there has to be a reasonable middle ground. You don't have to love your body, you don't have to hate your body. It can just be your body.
Yep, I'm with you on that score.
But like body fat, when it's male-to-male, there is no social etiquette. When guys I knew would see me with my shirt off, they would openly point and yell "Look, STRETCH MARKS!".
In that case, I think you'll find it's socially acceptable to tell them to shut the hell up!