Embrace your body

“You are fat, you are ugly, and you are disgusting.”

These are words every woman has thought to herself while looking in the mirror. From models to software engineers to vendors; every woman has, at some point, hated her body. Every woman has loathed her body.

Taryn Brumfitt asked 100 women to describe their bodies in one word. Sad smiles and words like “wobbly”, “stumpy”, “gross”, “frumpy” and “disgusting” were the answers she got.

She posted this photograph of her body on Facebook, “Before” and “After” childbirth, and it went viral. Why? “Because Heaven forbid a woman can love her body after,” she says.

Brumfitt, too, once hated her body. A photographer and mother of three from Adelaide, AU, she talks about how she used to look at her reflection in the mirror and call herself “fat”, “ugly” and “disgusting”. In the trailer for her documentary “Embrace”, which she one day promises to create, she talks about her journey, from loathing her body to embracing it.

Brumfitt talks about when she entered herself into a body building competition. She says she eventually did have the “perfect body” but “nothing changed about how [she] felt about her body”.

In her Huffington Blogpost she talks about her first days after her pregnancy, when her tummy “resembled something from the 80s movie ‘The Blob’” and her nipples “had grown to the size of dinner plates”. She remembers thinking, “Disloyal and disgusting body, I hate you.”

Brumfitt also talks about the moment she learned to love her body, which wasn’t actually a moment at all. She says “It taken a lot of effort, time and energy but I can tell you there is nothing better than a.) loving your body wholeheartedly, lumps and bumps and all and b.) telling society where they can shove their ideals of beauty.”

Brumfitt hopes to get enough donations to make her dream come true and create this documetary someday. She wants it to "teach women to love their bodies."