A few years ago popular blogger Constance Hall believed skinny equalled beautiful.
“I used to be obsessed with my weight,” she admitted in a Facebook post.
“My least favourite part of being a mum was losing the baby weight.”
But a breast lump taught her to let go.
“I was so scared that I wouldn’t be granted the privilege to raise these perfect children of mine,” she wrote.
“When the doctor told me it was a cyst and not cancer I was flooded with relief.
“I grabbed my kids so tightly.”
Hall, who writes for her many followers at Queens of Constance said the cancer scare reminded her a certain set of numbers on a scale was no guarantee of happiness.
“Now I realise that not losing your baby weight isn’t a sign of letting go, it’s a sign that this Queen has evolved,” she explained.
Constance refers to her followers – many of them women who speak openly about issues surrounding motherhood and love and life – as Queens.
“Happiness is about gratitude and love and the privilege that is life.”
The post clearly struck a chord with her followers because it’s now been shared more than 118,000 times.
It’s also garnered more than 3,000 comments, including several from cancer survivors as well as other women who’ve struggled to accept their post-baby bodies.
