Body Positivity In Social Media


Today I want to share my thoughts on body positivity, specifically its  activeness in social media. I'm feeling very productive while writings this as, shock and horror, I'm actually sat at my desk! Anyway I just want to start off with what I'm not going to talk about, I'm planning to write a whole other post about why I don't think social media is  as bad as everyone says it is so I'm literally only going to talk  about one of the 'glass half full' aspects of social media: the body positivity movement.

 Firstly lets discuss what body positivity means to me; in my opinion, as long as your completely healthy then who gives one about what size you are. If you eat well, exercise regularly and don't have any lifestyle induced health issues then it does not matter how many stretch marks you have! I'm not saying its okay to be fat, as research shows that being overweight has definite negative side affects, but I am saying that as a society our idea of what fat actually is  happens to be completely messed up. If you type in plus size model into google then you get hundreds of images of women who are generally size 10-14! These people aren't fat or unhealthy, genes make them that way and that should be the end of the story. However unfortunately, we are constantly pressured to have perfect size 8 bodies even if our DNA prevents us from acheiving that. And that's where social media (which has previously been part of the cause of the pressure) is now helping the situation.

Social media has allowed people to make highly viewed platforms and share real life bodies and use hash tags to encourage the audience to join in with the movement. Just yesterday I was scrolling through my explore feed and I found a fantastic account called bodyposipanda the account features inspiring posts about body positivity and I highly recommend you checking her out I was amazed! Also celebrities like Iskra Lawrence and Ashley Graham are other great platforms to look at. Everywhere in social media small body positivity movements are finally emerging.

I think the important thing is making sure you are healthy and knowing your body, try not to expect to fit in to one standard of beauty and after that work on accepting your body and its flaws and positivity will follow. It must be easier said then done, I am lucky in the fact that I was born very petite and so I am fairly skinny (aside from my thighs and my bum) so I understand that its easier to talk about these kinds of things when you fit more easily into whats considered pretty.

I have not even scratched the surface on body positivity or social media and I know that so I plan on making so many more posts about these sorts of topics. Lots of love xxxx

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