Post-Pregnancy Photo Series Shows How Mothers’ Bodies Look After Giving Birth
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Photos of women in the mass media don’t seem to leave much room for women who don’t match its heavily Photoshopped concept of beauty, but photographer Jade Beall provides a healthy counterweight, using her photography to highlight just how beautiful the bodies of mothers truly are.
Beall’s photography takes women in all of their beauty – thick and thin, smooth and wrinkly, tall and short. Her photos seem especially empowering for women who have been marked with stretchmarks by their pregnancies. On her website, she writes that her goal is “ to build self-esteem in a world that thrives off women feeling insecure“ and “to inspire future generations of women to be free from the unnecessary self-suffering and embrace their beauty just as they are.“
Her photos have generated controversy by some, and were temporarily removed from Facebook for featuring nudity, but that hasn’t stopped her!
More info: jadebeall.com | Facebook | abeautifulbodyproject.com (h/t: huffpost)
Image credit: Leticia Valverdes
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This made me feel normal. We need more if that!!
I have never seen someone that looks like me until this series. I thought I was the only one.
I am shocked... I, a guy, have known about this for years (only 33). can only dream of the day I have a partner with this, would love it!
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I didn't realize this either - but I don't see it as beautiful in myself; no man ever would, either, least of all my new husband.
https://www.change.org/p/aus-government-to-subsadise-mummy-make-overs
I love it. We should see more of what women really look like, not this photo-shopped rubbish, especially after having babies.
I love this article. I love the photographs. I love anything that moves us women forward to a place of accepting ourselves and each other.
This made me feel normal. We need more if that!!
I have never seen someone that looks like me until this series. I thought I was the only one.
I am shocked... I, a guy, have known about this for years (only 33). can only dream of the day I have a partner with this, would love it!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I didn't realize this either - but I don't see it as beautiful in myself; no man ever would, either, least of all my new husband.
https://www.change.org/p/aus-government-to-subsadise-mummy-make-overs
I love it. We should see more of what women really look like, not this photo-shopped rubbish, especially after having babies.
I love this article. I love the photographs. I love anything that moves us women forward to a place of accepting ourselves and each other.