Mujeres contra los parámetros de belleza postparto

Cuatro mujeres quisieron romper con los estigmas y se mostraron al natural para reflejar el proceso postparto que enfrentan las madres luego de dar a luz.

Lejos de cumplir con los parámetros de belleza que se cree que se debe mostrar en las redes sociales, cuatro mujeres lucieron su silueta poco tiempo después de convertirse en madres.

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“Is this an advertisement for why women should get tummy tucks?”⠀ ⠀ “Why aren’t there any fit women in this photo? Not every postpartum body is fat and loose.”⠀ ⠀ “Why has society made it ok to bash women who bounce back yet glorify women who can’t lose weight?”⠀ ⠀ “How about dieting?”⠀ ⠀ “Posts like this bother me. Not losing the weight is a choice.”⠀ ⠀ “I’m a mother of 4 but I’m also a smokin’ hot wife because that’s my duty. No way I’d be happy or settle to look like this.”⠀ ⠀ “Photos like this tear women apart.”⠀ ⠀ “So, you’re saying that skinny women don’t have real bodies?”⠀ ⠀ Just a small sample of the comments we’ve received over the past few days since our original post went live. It’s a shame that the point has been completely missed by some of the people that have taken time out of their day to comment. (The point being: the four of us have been friends online for a long time and finally met IRL and took a last minute photo together...of our different postpartum body types...to show that all body types are beautiful.)⠀ ⠀ If you look at this photo and your first thought is “why are there no skinny women”, you have bigger issues to deal with, my friend. You can look literally anywhere: film, TV, Instagram, magazines, video games and see skinny women. Other body types are absolutely underrepresented in media and it causes women with those body types to feel less than... to feel like they’re not good enough.⠀ ⠀ I want to encourage anyone who felt the need to leave any of the above comments to dig deeper, self-reflect, gain some perspective, learn. Your comment says WAY fucking more about you than it does about us.⠀ ⠀ Be better. // @katiemcrenshaw @theperfectmom @meg.boggs ♥️

Una publicación compartida de BETHANIE GARCIA (@thegarciadiaries) el 4 May, 2019 a las 1:07 PDT

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I asked my audience to complete the sentence “Postpartum is ________.” and received over 3,000 responses. As I sat there and read the responses, my eyes filled with tears. Because I was reading the same answers over and over and over and over again. At least 300 (I lost count) said they felt “isolated”. At least 270 said it was “scary”. Over 50 women said a variation of the words “way harder than I thought it would be”. ⠀ ⠀ Can we take a second to truly understand how powerful this is? We are all feeling these things. Navigating uncharted waters. Walking alone in the dark. Until you realize...maybe we’re not? If we’re all feeling these things, why not link arms and feel them together? Because at the end of the day, as isolated and alone as we feel...we are not alone. And we are all in this together. ⠀ ⠀ POSTPARTUM IS:⠀ • Isolating ⠀ • Empowering⠀ • Lonely⠀ • A life-long recovery⠀ • Overwhelming ⠀ • Scary⠀ • Draining⠀ • Rewarding ⠀ • Exhausting ⠀ • Confusing ⠀ • Way harder than I thought it would be⠀ • A nightmare⠀ • Messy⠀ • Painful⠀ • Emotional • Never ending ⠀ • The worst hell I’ve survived⠀ • Fucking brutal⠀ • Sadness and joy at the same time⠀ • Harder than pregnancy ⠀ • The worst thing and the best thing. ⠀ ⠀ These are all responses that had 40+ repeats. Did you relate to at least one of them? Maybe ALL of them?⠀ ⠀ You. Are. Not. Alone. ⠀ ⠀ Head to @denupzter for her postpartum story next. #this_is_postpartum

Una publicación compartida de BETHANIE GARCIA (@thegarciadiaries) el 25 Sep, 2019 a las 8:49 PDT

El objetivo es reflejar el proceso postparto que están viviendo, rápidamente las imágenes se viralizaron por la internet.

Bethanie García, una madre de Arizona, Estados Unidos, fue quien compartió la foto y contó que en un principio los comentarios que recibieron fueron negativos. Las tildaron de “gordas” y hasta les sugerían empezar una dieta.

“Si miras esta foto y tu primer pensamiento es ‘por qué no hay mujeres delgadas’, tienes problemas más grandes con los que lidiar, amigo mío”, escribió Bethanie en la descripción de la publicación.

A su vez, agregó: “Puedes mirar literalmente en cualquier lugar: cine, TV, Instagram, revistas, videojuegos y ver mujeres delgadas. Otros tipos de cuerpo están absolutamente subrepresentados en los medios de comunicación y hace que las mujeres con esos tipos de cuerpo se sientan menos que… para sentir que no son lo suficientemente buenas”, continuó Bethanie García.

“Quiero animar a cualquier persona que sienta la necesidad de dejar cualquiera de los anteriores comentarios para profundizar, reflexionar, ganar algo de perspectiva, aprender. Tu comentario dice MUCHO más sobre ti que sobre nosotras”, finalizó con su reflexión la mujer sobre su cuerpo y la mirada de los otros.