The same blog that posted the “are these moms too fat or too thin?” body policing post posted pictures like the one on the left saying that Jessica Alba should just shut up about losing the baby weight when she clearly had lost all of it. And I was angry! Sigh. As I tend to be.
Left - September 22, 2011. Right - February 2010. Of all the pernicious body policing lies, the one that irritates me the most for some irrational reason is the endless gossip blogs that claim new moms have “lost all the baby weight” when it is manifestly not true. If Jessica Alba on the left were not a new mom, the same blogs would be calling her fat, out of shape, or starting a baby bump watch. I am not saying one word about Jessica Alba’s relative health or attractiveness or anything else besides this: she has not lost all the weight she gained in her pregnancy. It’s a lie to say she has, one more lie we tell about celebrities’ and women’s bodies.
September 23rd, 2011
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