Beautiful/Fat. Inspiring/Disgusting.

Yesterday, a boy in work said to me,

"look at that fat b**ch over there. She just bumped into me."

Only seeing a woman size 12-14 (UK), I responded,

"She's not fat, she's like a size 12, that's not fat!"

"Yes it is, look at her, fat f**king b**ch!"

Outrage is an understatement for how I responded.

Therefore, I had to share my view with the world.

It absolutely disgusted me that somebody, not just a boy, but anybody thinks that they can speak about a woman in that manor.

It especially irritated me that he didn't know this woman. This woman could have given birth not one week ago for all he knew. And yet, she is considered fat in his eyes.

And the reason for this...

The Media.

Not all of the media, just media that report stories such as these:-

'Kourtney Kardashian shows off the full extent of her 44lbs post-baby weight loss as she parades her trim figure in a series of skimpy bikinis'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2269271/Kourtney-Kardashian-shows-44lbs-post-baby-weight-loss-series-skimpy-bikinis.html

And

'Jessica Simpson shows off her 40lbs weight-loss (and little Maxwell's first bikini) on Katie Couric's new chat show'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2201224/The-big-reveal-Jessica-Simpson-shows-post-baby-weightloss-arrives-Katie-Couric-interview.html

I mean WTF?

I get it. I get that women want to be fit and healthy again. And, it's ok if women want to look good, it's not a crime.

But why oh why can these women in the media not embrace their motherly figure for a while?

Women give birth to life. Without women, we would have no history. It's something of utter natural beauty and simply a miracle.

A woman's body after giving birth, to me, is like a badge of motherhood.

Something to be proud of.

And something that should not be ridiculed in the media.

If these stories were not published in the media, there wouldn't be this disgraceful sense of being 'fat' or 'ugly' post birth.

What's worse is that these women in the media, such as Kourtney Kardashian, are signing deals with magazines to lose the weight in a certain time.

How are we supposed to progress in the world as independent women, if half of us are just feeding into men's and the Media's idea of the 'perfect body'?

It's a depressing thought.