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edition 5 july‘2014
Brumfitt is ideally
positioned to make a
documentary about
body image. The
Australian mother of
three once felt the way
too many women feel
every day—like a
disgusting, ugly blob.
Although Brumfitt dieted
and exercised herself
into fitness competition
shape, she still didn’t
feel like she met the
requirements for
perfection presented by
Hollywood and most
fitness magazines. In
early 2013, she planned
to have a tummy tuck,
but before she went
under the knife, Brumfitt
wondered what kind of
message her
dissatisfaction with her
body was sending to
her daughter, Mikaela.
Taryn Brumfitt
is out to
challenge the
pressure to
Photoshop
and plasticsurgery
yourself into
perfection.
That’s when she decided to
launch the Body Image
Movement, which counters
the inescapable body
shaming in our society by
encouraging women to
speak positively about their
bodies and the bodies of
others. In March 2013
Brumfitt shared before-andafter photos of herself.
Those kinds of physicaltransformation images are
in every weight-loss
advertisement, celebrity
cover story, workout DVD
infomercial, and lifestyle
magazine. But Brumfitt
cleverly made the pictures
the inverse of what we’ve
been taught to expect. Her
“before” was of her at a
bodybuilding competition,
and the “after” photo was
of her post-pregnancy. They
went viral across social
media.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/15/ladies-not-fat-ugly-moms-mission-counteract-body-shaming
“it should be illegal to call somebody FAT on tv.....
why is humiliating people funny
- Jennifer Lawrence
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