'Skinny' Mom Offers Different Perspective On Body Shaming

A Kentucky mom's powerful blog post is offering a new perspective in the conversation about postpartum body image. Photographer and blogger Ashley Glass wrote a post titled, "Thunder Thighs or Skinny Mini: The Truths Behind Body Shaming," in which she shares her own personal body image journey and offers some advice to her fellow moms and society as a whole. Explaining that she's always been "the small girl," Glass begins her post with descriptions of the unkind labels and nicknames people always used to describe her "surfboard" figure. She then describes how her body changed with pregnancy and the birth of her now-3-year-old son. "Having no idea what a legit post-baby bod would look like, I was a bit traumatized that I had a miniature basketball belly still there, even after he came out," she wrote.  Though she shed the additional pounds, trouble began when the mom continued to lose weight uncontrollably, her hair started falling out in large clumps and her heart rate skyrocketed. She also started feeling extremely sad and emotional over very small matters. "I felt judged and like all eyes were on me, but there was nothing I could do about it," she said. "Rumors spread at work that I was anorexic; co-workers monitored my lunch-eating habits. I started to hear comments about how 'sickly' I looked and how I needed to put on weight." After a few doctor visits, Glass was diagnosed with a rare condition called postpartum thyroiditis. Soon after, she learned that she wa...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news