The thing is, my children are perfect. I am the grown up, so I’m supposed to show them everything about life. When they wake up in the morning, though, I stare at them and they’re new. They teach me everything. They are babies and they teach me what it means to be a person. It’s easy to see that they’re beautiful.

I am slow and I am tired. I am round and sagging. I am harried. I am sexless. I am getting older.

I am beautiful. How can this be? How can any of this be true?

I don’t want my girls to be children who are perfect and then, when they start to feel like women, they remember how I thought of myself as ugly and so they will be ugly too. They will get older and their breasts will lose their shape and they will hate their bodies, because that’s what women do. That’s what mommy did. I want them to become women who remember me modeling impossible beauty. Modeling beauty in the face of a mean world, a scary world, a world where we don’t know what to make of ourselves

fuckyeahbodypositivity:

body positive consent? perfection.

damn-iwasgoingforthoughtful:

keeptalkingdarling:

realityofhealthy:

Hey everyone! I’m sharing this video with you today because I think we need more pro-body confidence in the world.

Here’s the description:

“Seven women were photographed by a professional fashion photographer without make-up, in just their underwear and a tank top, as they speak about their personal experiences with body image and media. The photos are not altered or touched up.”

This fills my eyes with tears. I want to love myself as I am. So badly. But I can’t rid my head of the voices that begin the counter arguments… “but…”

Body positivity is a process; everyone has their own way of coping with the change in mentality. That doesn’t mean you have to constantly put pressure on yourself or that you have to go about it alone. Contrary-wise! Never fear, there’s always someone to turn to. Don’t apologize for anything.

Enjoy the dulcet sensation of falling back in love with yourself. <3

bodygossiping:

Well done Special K, you’ve inflicted another misleading diet ad on the world.

Those of you who have seen the latest Special K ‘What will you gain when you lose?’ advert will know the image I’m refering to, five sets of scales each reading a word such as confidence, sass, pride, hope, peace, sparkle or positivity.

Once again I have been filled with the sort of rage that comes only from this sort of advertising. Yes, according to them lot at Kellogs, losing weight is a sure-fire way to feeling imeasurably better about yourself.

Of course for many of us, feelings of low self worth or a lack of confidence are much deeper rooted than simply our apprearance. This may be where the worry manifests itself, but in reality the issue is far more comlex. I’ve spoken to several people (too many to count) who went on diets to make them feel better about themselves. And did it work? Did it f*ck.

Also- what Special K fail to say on their adverts is that the ‘Special K diet’ is actually incredibly unhealthy.

* There is no way that diet will allow you to absorb all the nutrients your body needs.

* The large reduction in food intake from a healthy diet to that will put the body into starvation mode.

BUT HEY THERE SPECIAL K, you’re not stupid are you. For in reality you know all too well that eating two small bowls of your cereal and a meal in one day will make people lose weight. You’ve guessed it might make them TEMPORARILY feel better about themselves. You have also, if I’m not mistaken, realised that after a while people will begin to eat more again, because after all- Special K tastes like cardboard. I’m sure it is within your field of knowledge that once people do begin to eat more again their bodies will be holding on to more of what they consume for fear they restrict (embark on another of your stupid diets) again.

OH WAIT. Once they regain that weight they might need to lose it again (probably due to the pressure that yourself and many other advertising monsters continue to inflict upon us all) and BINGO- more Special K purchases.

I would have less of an issue with this adveritsing ploy if it were more responsible. if it said you example that you could gain fitness by maintaining a suitable weight for your body. By suitable I mean a stable weight which comes from not over or under eating, but by responding to hunger rather than emotions.

Congrats Special K, you are both incredibly manipulative and irresponsible. You are swines, and I shan’t give you another second of my time except to say this….

Readers of this blog. There is a reason that the diet industry is one of the successful in the world (and worth millions). Meanwhile more and more of us are left feeling inadequate and battleing with years of yo yo dieting.

So basically Special K (and all you other diet industry types), you can sod off.

Sarah X

jaleesabartley:

You must see this! The Black Venus Project 

Authentic, Timeless and Overdue photography by Maxim Vakhovskiy

http://maximushka.tumblr.com/

bemusedlybespectacled:

This is a sort of response, not to Tumblr, specifically (though it does happen on Tumblr, just not to me), but in general about posting pictures online and then getting sexually harassed. Expressing yourself =/= consent.

theallysonleigh:

i am really sick of seeing vintage ads or comparisons of past and present ideals of beauty as a way to argue that the present standard ideal of skinny being beautiful is wrong. who the fuck cares what the standard ideal of beauty is, and for that, why should we be dwelling on what used to be considered beautiful? as far as i’m concerned, claiming that being “skinny” is not beautiful and that being “well rounded” or “fat” is, is the same thing as saying that being fat is unattractive and that only skinny is beautiful. fuck all of this. why do we have to care how big or small a person is and who is to say which is right or wrong? neither is wrong. healthy is right, whether that is being big or small. it varies from person to person. to think that there is one standard size that is right is incredibly stupid. 

end rant. 

theloveyourselfchallenge:

I just thought you should know the truth <3