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December 18, 2018 by Molly 2 Comments

Hello and welcome! I'm Molly Forbes - podcaster, presenter and blogger with a passion for positivity, confidence and body image chat. Regularly writing and vlogging about empowering female issues from a motherhood angle, I also cover lifestyle and fashion topics for like-minded mums who want to rediscover themselves after having children. Thanks for stopping by! Read More…

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Wear a mask, but make it fashion 💁🏼‍♀️

Wear a mask, but make it fashion 💁🏼‍♀️ This one is from @itaintallsunshine who sell handmade Liberty print masks and bags and donate 10% of profits to food banks. Just need a pink bikini to match now 💕 #wearamask

Studies show kids display weight bias as early as

Studies show kids display weight bias as early as pre-school.
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By the time children get to primary school, multiple studies show they’re less likely to want to be friends with peers in bigger bodies, and kids who are larger are more likely to be bullied.
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There’s also research to show girls as young as 10 are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer or losing a parent.
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This stuff is REAL and it starts YOUNG. Social media often gets the blame for fatphobia or unrealistic body ideals, but the belief that thin = good and fat = bad has been internalised long before kids are old enough to even know what TiKTok is.
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And these ideas are being perpetuated in some of the places they should be safest - at school, at their GP, at home watching their favourite film or reading their favourite book.
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Swipe to see just a handful of some of the messages I’ve seen telling my kids that fat = bad in the last few weeks. I haven’t even included Barbie or David Walliams’ books on the list - there’s a limit to how many slides you can include in these!
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When I’ve noticed these I’ve called them out in front of the kids and we’ve had a conversation about it. And for all the negative representation, I invest in things that counteract these messages - books, social media accounts, TV shows etc that show positive representation. Arming kids with media literacy skills can help them be more aware of the messages they’re consuming and more able to call it out when they see it (see @nadia.craddock’s recent post for more evidence on the impact of media literacy skills). We can’t change things if we don’t notice they exist - this is where media literacy comes in.
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If you’re a teacher or youth leader keen to create a body happy, fatphobia free environment for the kids in your care then we’re running one more Body Happy Kids workshop before Sept. Link in bio! ❤️
#FreeFromDiets #BodyHappyKids

This one is dedicated to the Insta police 😂🥂

This one is dedicated to the Insta police 😂🥂 HAPPY FRIDAY GANG! #SexyAndIKnowIt

My last post got removed by Instagram for “going

My last post got removed by Instagram for “going against community guidelines” even though all you could see of my body was my tummy. No nipple, just skin. So I’m posting the same caption here, fully clothed, because the words are important. Let’s try again then...
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Cute story: the other morning Effie (age 5) was walking downstairs and her tummy started rumbling. She stopped and said, “My body’s telling me I’m hungry! My body’s so clever!” then she gave herself a hug standing right there on the stairs and said “Thank you body for telling me I’m hungry!” And I basically melted into a puddle of tears right there. I promise I did not pay her to say it 😂
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I wonder how long she’ll feel so beautifully connected with her body and her appetite. I hope for forever, but I know the society she lives in will try its hardest to sever that connection.
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I want my kids to know they are ALWAYS more than a body. But the ideals that tell us that one type of body is better than another - be it for “health” or “beauty” reasons - make this bloody hard. The messages are EVERYWHERE, and not just on TV or in magazines, but sometimes in the doctor’s office and at school too.
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These messages make children (and adults) question their body and themselves. They stop us all being connected with our body and living a full, happy life. They jab us like a pointy stick in the ribs, constantly reminding us to doubt ourselves and our worth, and to distrust our body. We need change, but as someone who works in this space it often feels like we’re going backwards.
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The Women & Equalities Commission has launched a new inquiry into body image. Changing the Perfect Picture aims to look at how body image impacts different people, and what changes need to be made in the UK to address the issue (I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear I told them I have a few ideas 😂). They’re asking people to complete a survey to help them collect evidence. I’ve included the link to the survey in my Stories ❤️

BOOBS. When I was little (like, 12 or something) m

BOOBS. When I was little (like, 12 or something) my nickname at school was “Little Man” because I had undeveloped breasts and short hair. That was around about the time I started growing my hair out and saving up all my pocket money for a Wonderbra in the hope people at school would leave me alone.
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I’ve lost many moments of comfort to uncomfortable underwear. Ironically even when I no longer felt the need to make my boobs look bigger I still invested in padded bras to hide the shape of my nipples poking through a T’shirt. That was sparked when a random man in a pub joked I had “coat hanger nipples” - it was the one time I wore a halterneck top without a bra on a night out, which I never did again.
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It’s now been 5 years since I last wore an underwired bra and many days I don’t wear any bra at all. These boobs are mine, and only I get to judge them. They’ve fed two babies - one for three years. They’re just a part of my body, and my body is allowed to live in comfort without bits of metal or tight elastic digging into my tender skin. My body does not need to be confined by shapewear or push-up bras just because society says that to be valued / attractive / sexy / acceptable it needs to look a certain way. It’s MY body. And only I get to decide what to do with it. And today and many other days, that means no bra ⚡️ #BodyHappyMum #LoveMeLoveMyBody #BodyImage

The text shared in this image is from an article I

The text shared in this image is from an article I read in The Metro last week and haven’t stopped thinking about ever since. Please take a minute to read this post and do the things at the bottom of this caption. Thank you ❤️
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Osime Brown, who is 21 years old and autistic, is currently serving a five year prison sentence for the theft of a mobile phone - even when witnesses said he’d asked the other teenagers he was with to stop the robbery.
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Osime has been issued deportation orders, despite having no family in Jamaica and not living there since he was four years old. When he was issued with the deportation order he asked his mum if he’d be able to get a bus from Jamaica back to Dudley, where she lives.
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Please follow @justiceforosimebrown and help support Osime’s appeal by sharing his story, signing the petition and, if you can, donate to the GoFundMe. These are all linked in The Metro article too and also in my Stories. Thank you for being here and thank you for reading. #justiceforosimebrown

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