A few days ago, as I was scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed, I saw a Buzzfeed article about a group of moms on Instagram. Not just any moms. These were brave women who were sharing very raw and real pictures of their post partum bodies with the hashtag #takebackpostpartum.
The image on the front of the article was of a mother with a deeply stretch-marked belly which was hard to ignore. I clicked on the link and saw image after image of very real women, unfiltered, unretouched and beautiful. Not beautiful in the hyper-glossed sense that we, as a society, have been indoctrinated to believe in…but beautiful in the intimacy and power that is the female form after creating and delivering life.
