Body positivity – why women are tired of skinny stereotypes - Body Image & Self-Esteem

I am writing this for 15-year-old me, teased for having a flat chest.

I am writing this for 25-year-old me, at war with her post-partum body and newly rippled skin.

I am writing this for every woman who feels quite frankly exhausted by fighting her own reflection.

I grew up in the Nineties, where skinny was sexy.

In 1999, Victoria Beckham was asked to weigh herself on live TV after having her son, Brooklyn.

This was the era of Friends, where Monica was at the centre of fat jibe...

Body positivity – why women are tired of skinny stereotypes