Showing posts with label Body Positive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Body Positive. Show all posts

[Lingerie gifted to me by Figleaves]

Self love is sexy. And yes, that applies to every single BODY. I'm a size 16 twenty-two-year-old and I love myself. I dress up in lace lingerie for nobody but myself. Even as a twenty-two-year-old single virgin – being sexy is still a thing and is something that empowers me on a daily basis.

I hop on here very often to express my thoughts on my body. From learning to love my curves to embracing my imperfections, and from being a midsize girl, to dressing to suit my shape. And today isn't much different. I wanted to hop on here today to chat to you all about loving yourself. Whether you're curvy, slim, fat, thin, or anywhere in-between – bodies deserve love. My curves deserve love. Your curves deserve love. We all deserve love...

There's so much talk on social media that revolves around getting a 'summer body', a 'beach body' or a 'bikini body'. But I call bullshit. Although I understand fully, the desire of wanting toned abs, lean thighs and an 'instagram worthy' body – it's just a trap. A trap to ensure we buy into the diet industry, and a trap to ensure we loath our bodies so much that we feel the need to alter and change them. 

Model: Megan Jayne Crabbe | Photography: Becky Long
Megan Jayne Crabbe, best known as @bodyposipanda on social media, is a body positive advocate and all round warrior! Her debut book 'Body Positive Power' is a beacon of light to all. While reading this marvellous book, it dawned on me that had I have read this when I was younger, my relationship with my body would have been vastly different...

Among young people, body positivity is a growing concern and a concern we need to tackle much more than we are at present. Our generation has been exposed to media and the unrealistic beauty ideal much more than the generations of our parents and grandparents. Self-hatred and self-loathing isn’t a physical condition, it’s a mental one and we need to start changing and altering young people's way of thinking...

I am so sick of seeing posts everywhere on social media that are subliminally telling girls how they should look, act and live their lives. We are human beings and we can do, be and live however the hell we want.