Sofia Lindfors is a Swedish model and influencer who has just done a zas in the mouth to her colleagues by profession and, in general, to all those people and media that contribute to the idea that you have to have a perfect body weeks or even days after giving birth.
He stars in the cover of the summer edition of the magazine mama with a beautiful bikini image accompanied by his two daughters of six and a year and a half. With his belly still flaccid, even with some cellulite and showing the caesarean scar. So is your body now and so happy. More covers like this one!
Proud of her body
The model, who has more than 13,000 followers on her Instagram account @heltenkeltfi, says that one of the worst compliments she can do is: "It doesn't look like you've been pregnant." She is proud of her war wounds: "I have suffered 84 weeks of pregnancy, I have two daughters, my body has been cut, used and sewn and I survived. I want it to appear that I am a warrior, a giver of life, a true superwoman. ! "
Sofia moves away from the stereotyped image that the famous people often offer: a successful model that points to motherhood almost as a complement in her perfect life. She talks openly about how horrific her first birth was and how bad it happens when your child comes with a problem, as happened to her with her first daughter. An experience that was the trigger for his change of mind.
When will you lose the gut?
When Sofia became pregnant with her first daughter, she was basically worried about how her body would look and how long it would take to lose weight to get back to work. However, priorities changed when, before birth, your baby was detected with a congenital disease that affected the bladder and would require major operations once it was born:
"In the second I saw her, she changed her life and all the priorities completely. We were involved in a succession of operations for more than two years of constant attention and much anxiety. When people asked me in the interviews how long it took me to lose my belly I gave them some looks that were like daggers. Is this the important thing? I wondered. "
That was when he decided that, if he ever got pregnant again, he would take advantage of his popularity to show what is "right" after giving birth. And the right thing for her is: "recover and just be. Feel calm and not see you dragged into that sick spiral of 'get fit and sexy again.' I don't understand why everything has to be so rushed. Where is your time?" ?", Explain.
Hoppsan, nu blev det visst lite vl snett goes Ja jvlar, det hr du rtt i. h, allts som kvinna fr man ju rkna med att kroppen gr snder lite och sdr vid in frlossning. Hon ska ju rod glad see att hon ftt ett barn liksom. Jag bryr mig verkligen inte om mitt stora, sneda rr. MEN jag blir helt jvla vansinnig see attityden kring frlossningsskador och sviterna after graviditetfrlossning. Att vrden inte tar kvinnor p allvar, att en mste brka fr att f hjlp och knappt fr den d. Den vidriga "lilla gumman" -attityden och att in frvntas accept allt mjligt skit bara fr att det hr ihop med att in ftt ett barn. Vilken man skulle accepttera att hans balle gick snder fr att "han ju nd blivit pappa s inte ska han vl brka om kuken d…"… #kejsarsnitt #jagochmittsnitt #fifilosoferar #mammamage #csection
Not only the famous
Definitely, you need more brave covers like this and fewer perfect bodies (sometimes retouched) shortly after giving birth. Sofia is critical of her colleagues and other celebrities for her way of contributing to the unreal image of women in relation to motherhood:
"The media offers only one type of image: that of a woman who went through a pregnancy and a completely unchanged birth. No one seems to be pregnant six months after giving birth (or less than a day later) and nobody has stretched the skin, has wrinkles or stretch marks. There may be some image of slight imperfection, but always under a headline of 'pregnancy sequels' and advice on how to get rid of them. "
"This," the model continues, "creates a distorted image and adds stress and pressure to recent mothers, who should only focus on union with their children, breastfeeding and rest." And here is the key to the matter. Women receive the message that what is normal and then, they find their real postpartum body (with their belly as if you were still six months pregnant, flaccid skin, etc.).
This only has negative consequences: either we hurry with diet and exercise or we sink into complexes about not having the right body, a total waste of time because at that time we have much more important things to do: connect with our baby and Give him the best of us. Not to mention how negative it is to add pressure to a situation as delicate as the postpartum with the ghost of depression as a very real threat to a woman in a vulnerable situation.
More women like Sofia
Fortunately, and thanks in large part to social networks, there are already many women who dare to teach, proud, their extra kilos, their "imperfect" bellies and their war marks.
They are proud of their bodies, not only for their physical appearance, but for what they have been able to do, which is to create and give birth to a new life. In this link you can see a beautiful photo session of women's bodies in their "fourth trimester of pregnancy". It takes more covers like this and less perfect bodies a week after giving birth.
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