How’s it going? Tired of ads promising to wash away all your cellulite and problems?
Sarah Vance is a body image coach who wants to help more women drop the body hate and enjoy their lives by working out however they want and eating cupcakes without losing it. She recently shared an excellent selfie in Wonder Woman undies with a post-it on her cellulite.
She wasn’t always all good with her tiger stripes, and she wrote this:
“Some wonder women have cellulite, some don’t. One is not superior than the other, and neither are bad. I felt intense shame around my cellulite for the majority of my life. The first time I noticed my cellulite, I was around 9 years old, I had gone through puberty and my initial weight gain of “womanhood”. I hated it. I hid it. I tried everything to rid my body of it. There was so much shame surrounding this part of my body that looking back at it – I’m sad I wasted so much emotion, time, and money on it. I could’ve been out doing wonder woman things like crushing the patriarchy.”
Seriously, when we’re in our golden years, we want to look back at all the great dances we did in our undies, not body inspection in the mirror. She continued:
“I no longer see it as a flaw because it isn’t. It’s actually very normal. The idea that it was a flaw was made up from companies wanting us to buy into their creams, diets, exercise regimens. They play into insecurities around it. Some bodies have cellulite, some don’t. There isn’t a secret in some not having it, and others having it. IT’S GENETICS. Literally…”
According Dr. Michael Kaplan with whom we spoke, cellulite is simply deposits of estrogen.
And of course, there are bigger fish to fry than trying for Barbie legs or fretting about the differences that mark our selfies and ourselves. She wrote:
It’s amazing because collectively this is something many battle against, and w would think that if we are ALL fighting the battle of smooth skin…maybe, just maybe the issue isn’t us. maybe it’s our culture. Maybe it’s the propoganda we have bought into. That is the reality of the situation. We are more intelligent than that, right? I believe so. And I also believe we are powerful wonder women who can stand against the current culture, and change it. Where we no longer fight and fear our own bodies, but we fight for something greater for the good of everyone. Like world hunger, diminishing resources, equal rights, education, dismantling the patriarchy, access to healthcare etc.
Cellulite = totally naturally occurring phenomenon that need not get in the way of what we really want: more cannonballs in bikinis and running around in short shorts it floats our respective boats.
She works with people on banishing the body hate. If you already knew cellulite was all good, and didn’t need this, then you know, carry on.
