![]() ![]() What we are really saying by censuring Emily’s post is that she should obscure her beauty behind a bushel, or else make her body less conventionally attractive if she wants other women to like her. So often we ask women to be less than they are in order to fit in and gain our acceptance. What’s she going to do? Hire a stunt double to cover her maternity leave until sufficient time has passed for everyone to accept her body’s shape and sexuality again? It’s not her fault that her body serves as a mirror for our own insecurities. She even has her own bikini line for chrissakes. Her famed Instagram account is where she posts.images of her near-naked body. I didn’t judge my body against Emily’s before I had a baby (I’m not a masochist), so why did I immediately jumpy to judge it against hers post birth? Just because she’s had a baby doesn’t mean she’s suddenly morphed into everywoman- Emily had a one in a million body before her pregnancy, why would we expect her body to be anything less than one in a million after pregnancy?Įmily’s body is her truth. ![]() Her physicality has generated a gargantuan following of over 27 million, so are we now saying that the post birth version of that same body should be concealed? Is it because she looks sexy that we have such a strong reaction? Emily’s body has always been insanely hot and never remotely like mine. As Emily’s career is built around her beauty and genetic lottery win, her figure is central not only to her identity as a woman but also her business. Firstly, it goes without saying that no woman should ever feel she should cover or hide her body in any circumstance. At the very least, show some camaraderie and take a day off babe.īut after that first reflexive reaction, I soon began to break down my own argument. As a well-seasoned player in the influencer games, Emily cannot be naïve to the impact her image would have on many of her followers and from that perspective her choice to post the shot suggests a meanness of spirit and a lack of empathy. Comparaitis is endemic and social media is the leading arena for measuring ourselves up against others-on a daily basis. But for first time mums, who are often incredibly emotionally vulnerable and still reeling from sometimes traumatic births and recoveries, seeing an image like Emily’s could feel completely tone deaf. While I haven’t managed to quite view my post birth body as beautiful, I do respect it for what it has achieved. Basically, I’m not shopping for crop tops RN.įortunately, I’m comfortable with my body and know from experience that exercise and time will change things. I’d explain its current shape as ‘gravity-impacted’, with my flesh seemingly un-moored from any muscular structure whatsoever. I’d describe the current texture as akin to stuffing a layer of plasticine under cling film then using your thumb to make random indents across the entire surface. ![]() While I’ve been relatively ‘lucky’ to lose most of my pregnancy weight and I’m back into about 50% of my clothes, my stomach does not look like that. ![]() Did Emily post it for validation? To ‘showcase’ (aka ‘show off’) her post birth figure and impress her followers? Was it simply sheer narcissism? Surely, she could have spared a thought for the other 99% of new mums who are confronted with a slightly less FHM vision in the mirror less than two weeks after labour? Without rationalising, my primal reaction was to negatively compare my own body to hers. My initial thought was to wonder who exactly this image serves. Without even a cursory zoom, I could see exactly why Claire was annoyed at the image, showing Emily looking gorgeous in a pair of slinky pjs undone to reveal her midsection without a hint of the wreckage that nine months usually wreaks on most figures. As a recently ‘post’ mother myself (I gave birth to my second son, Ripley, just under 8 weeks ago), my interest was immediately piqued, and I clicked through to examine said flat stomach. Apparently, Vampire Diaries actress Claire Holt had taken issue with Emily uploading an image of her ‘impossibly’ flat stomach a mere 11 days after birth on the Instagram account for her Inamorata lingerie and loungewear range and that meant several news sites found a hook to write about Emily’s post-partum body. For more parenting stories, advice, tips and memes, check out Grazia's new parenting community on Instagram, through news sites during my nightly 4am feed, I came across a story about model/ actress Emily Ratajkowski’s post birth body. ![]()
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