#bopomovement

[aladylikeme]

Do you have to have curves to be part of the body positivity club?

As the global conversation rages on around body positivity, SA’s voice is heard loud and clear, writes Zodwa Kumalo

[boring-bisexual]

I want to say that this isn't me being brave, that this is just me living & it's totally normal & I'm 100% happy and confident in this body.

But, at this point in my journey, that just isn't the truth. This is the scariest picture I've ever posted & doing so is giving me so much anxiety. I've tried to post tummy photos before, but they're still all saved in my drafts &, for some crazy reason, I clicked post on this one. It only takes 5 seconds of insane courage to change anything right? Well here's that little bit of courage.

I think the main reason I'm posting this is because this is what I needed to see when I was growing up, & even now I still need to see this. If I grew up seeing the way people really looked, I wouldn't have been so ashamed of my body, & I probably wouldn't have learned to view food as such a bad thing. It's been a long, hard, painful journey to get to this point in my life & I've done some serious damage to my body, but now I'm learning to love it & to take care of it.

And now I want to see all sorts of different sizes & types of people. That's how it is in all of nature, yet somehow society decided to change it all in a blink of an eye. Take a moment & look around you. There are so many dogs, flowers, cats, trees, mountains, bodies of water, & more that all look so different, & yet we think all humans should look the same? That doesn't make sense & that's not how it works. So take off society's glasses & learn to love, accept and support yourself & the people around you, no matter their size, shape or belief system, really no matter what!

#ThisShitIsScary