They celebrate their shapes and it feels great

In order to counter the beauty dictates with the arrival of summer, many women have decided to celebrate their bodies on social networks.


by Melanie Bonvard

It's summer, that's it! If the good weather is back, the holidays have been well started, there remains this very stubborn scourge that are the injunctions to have a skinny body to go to the beach. This is why, on Twitter, many are those who have decided to counter these diktats by showing that there is not only one "summer body" but many. Thus, Internet users launched the hashtag # PlusDe70kgEtSereine by posting photos of them in swimsuits, in summer dresses, revealing their shapes. As much to tell you that this initiative does a lot of good and proves that the bodies of models are not the image of all women, far from it.

This hashtag also allows you to realize that weighing more than 70 kg is not negative and that it is quite possible to live serenely with your weight and curves. This hastag was first launched last year by a young woman called Elawan. While a tweet criticized her weight, she decided to create this hashtag and it was arguably the best answer: "This hashtag, I created on a whim to show my fed up with the ordinary grossophobia of this society that would like us to hate each other (because we are 'outside the norm'). To show that I'm fat and that I love it " she explained at the time.

Since then, the scale has been such that many other women have taken up this initiative by posting photos of themselves as resplendent as they are in bloom. With the summer, the hashtag reappeared on social networks and allows, once again, to show that beauty diktats are still tenacious, of course, but that it is still possible to celebrate your body regardless of its morphology.

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