You know what’s a huge waste of my time? Being sad about being fat while pregnant.
In May, I was at an event where I ended up appearing in a whole bunch of photos. And since this is 2014, some of those photos ended up on Facebook. And because it’s Facebook, I ended up tagged, which meant all my friends – from my primary school classmates to the girl who lived on my floor at university to my mother’s second cousin who lives in Sweden – saw them.
I did not like it. They were not flattering. They were candid, and that is what I look like in candid photos, but they made me sad.
Insert literally 1000 words I wrote, then deleted about how being fat sucks here.
I do a lot of maternity photo sessions and my clients are always GORGEOUS. Because that's who wants maternity photos: people who look adorable even at eight months pregnant. People who look like me spend five minutes on Pinterest and realise no lacy dress and oversized sun hat will ever change the size of their arms or shape of their face.
But this is what I look like.
This is what I look like right now while growing baby #3 and walking around in the world—and there is nothing wrong with wanting photos of myself OR with showing those photos to other people.
It's like that meme about how to get a bikini ready body: Buy a bikini, put it on your body. Done.
Here's how to take plus size maternity photos. Be pregnant in front of a camera, get someone to press the shutter button. Done.
This was originally published here and is republished with full permission.
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