Tired of worrying about the stretch marks left on her stomach from three pregnancies, lifestyle blogger Rachel Hollis decided to celebrate her body with an uplifting photo post to her Facebook page.
In the week since posting, the photo of Hollis smiling wide while dressed in a bikini, and its corresponding caption, has been Liked more than 400,000 times, and shared more than 50,000 times. The post has also picked up thousands of comments from fellow women, applauding her for taking pride in her body.
In the post, she writes, "I wear a bikini because I'm proud of this body and every mark on it," before encouraging others to "flaunt that body with pride!"
Hollis tells Today that her husband took the photo just a week after she'd completed her first marathon. Though she considered cropping out her stomach, she eventually decided against it after realizing, "This looks pretty good.”
"I had been working so hard training for this race and I felt so proud of my body," she told Today. "It’s never ever going to be like a Victoria’s Secret model, but I think I look good and my husband wants to make out with me, so I’m doing something right.”
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In the week since posting, the photo of Hollis smiling wide while dressed in a bikini, and its corresponding caption, has been Liked more than 400,000 times, and shared more than 50,000 times. The post has also picked up thousands of comments from fellow women, applauding her for taking pride in her body.
In the post, she writes, "I wear a bikini because I'm proud of this body and every mark on it," before encouraging others to "flaunt that body with pride!"
Hollis tells Today that her husband took the photo just a week after she'd completed her first marathon. Though she considered cropping out her stomach, she eventually decided against it after realizing, "This looks pretty good.”
"I had been working so hard training for this race and I felt so proud of my body," she told Today. "It’s never ever going to be like a Victoria’s Secret model, but I think I look good and my husband wants to make out with me, so I’m doing something right.”
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