レイチェル・レフィブレさんのインスタグラム写真 - (レイチェル・レフィブレInstagram)「I snapped these photos in December 2020. I wanted to send a sexy photo to my husband. Just ‘cause. I put on a fave pair of jeans, a cotton bra I thought was cute and a red lipstick that made me feel extra sexy. Then...I spent ten minutes contorting my body into various poses trying to make my stomach look as flat as possible. For my HUSBAND. We’ve been together for over eight years, married for almost six of those years and he sees me naked daily- getting dressed and undressed, peeing, showering, having sex, I mean, he watched me give birth to our son for f*cks sake- yet there I was, sucking in and tucking in my normal, healthy, strong, one-and-only body to fit an image of what I believed was sexy, worthy. Then I stopped. I took a breath. I remembered my training (practicing self-love, 10,000 hours of therapy, working out to be strong not skinny, the joy I get from a chocolate croissant, seeing my body as a marvelous container for the universe within me and the universe that is me) and then I exhaled the breath. I let my tummy relax and took the photo on the right and that’s the one I sent. Self-love doesn’t mean 24/7 body positivity, it means when you feel “less-than,” for any reason, you give yourself the gift of whatever work leads you back to the self-love. **A note on privilege: Existing in a cis, thin, white, able body means that even without “trying” to look a certain way, I have privilege and I won’t pretend those small belly roles erase or even diminish it. My point is only that size doesn’t inoculate a person against self-criticism, comparison, self-loathing, fear. I’m just sharing for whoever needed to know they aren’t alone in this experience. 💕」2月12日 5時21分