Страдавшая от анорексии британка похвасталась складками на животе

Жительница британского графства Эссекс, излечившаяся от анорексии, опубликовала на своей странице в социальной сети Instagram снимки в нижнем белье. Об этом пишет в понедельник, 14 ноября, Daily Mail.23-летняя Меган Джейн Крэбб (Megan Jayne Crabbe) загрузила снимок, на котором сравнила свой внешний вид в двух разных позах. На одном из фото ее складки на животе очевидны, а также девушка не нанесла на лицо макияж. «По-моему одна из этих фотографий красивее. Но я не о той, о которой вы думаете», — указала она в подписи к кадру. I think that one of these pictures is more beautiful than the other. But it's not the one you think. One would be called curvy, the other fat. One looks like a 'before', the other looks like an 'after'. One will inspire people to tell me that I'm unhealthy, unworthy, unlovable. The other will be praised, admired, desired. And even though I've spent my life believing that the version of me on the left is more valuable than the version on the right, I've changed my mind now. I think it's more beautiful just to be yourself. Because the picture on the left was taken with all the pressures of what a 'perfect' body should look like in mind. The body is posed. The face is polished. The angle is unnatural. And while both these pictures are me, I don't see myself in the picture on the left. I see everything our culture wants me to be. And I still don't quite measure up. In the picture on the right, I am relaxed. I am content. I am celebrating all the parts of myself I've been taught to be ashamed of for my whole life. The rolls on my stomach, the cellulite dotting my thighs, my face bare and my mind free from what anybody else wants me to be. And that freedom is beautiful. More beautiful than a perfect pose or a flattering angle could ever be. It's the kind of beauty that's in us all, exactly as we are. If only we could learn how to see ourselves clearly.