Can you have the "perfect body" with stretch marks? How about loose skin?
Musician Kimberly Henderson — best known for singing Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” to her baby in a wildly popular video — bravely bared her "imperfect" belly on Facebook to get the discussion started.
“Everyone always compliments me on how I have such a 'perfect' body after 4 kids. I decided to upload this pic and leave my belly 'unedited' 'unphotoshopped' because I used to struggle with accepting my body after kids," Henderson wrote in the caption. "I used to have a 6 pack before my babies . . . And now, even though I work out, I know it's not going to make my loose skin tight . . . Or my stretch marks disappear ever lol and I'm ok with that because everyday I get to wake up to four beautiful smiling faces and I'm reminded that they are worth this flabby belly and they are worth these stretch marks.”
Since posting the selfie, it’s received over 147,000 likes. Why share it?
"Because of my thin figure people don't think I have imperfections or insecurities," Henderson in an interview with Huffington Post. ”I wanted to show other women that I am just like them — stretch marks, loose skin.”
Rock on, Kimberly! Flaunt that bod! You exemplify the beauty of motherhood.
