Last week, actress Jessica Alba publicly admitted that in order to "quickly" loose weight after having her second child, she decided that her best course of action was to use a double-corset, tightly attached to her body for 3 full months. 24/7. For 90 days. Not only did she do that for real, she admits to it.
What. The. Fuck.
I feel like I JUST blogged about how irresponsible the media are for making women feel like absolute garbage simply for being mothers. Now, we're being told that starvation, discomfort and pain are necessary to have a pre-baby body. In 3 months. It takes 9 months to create life, something we've been doing since the dawn of time, but now, because of stories like this, the pressure is mounting to get that weight off faster and more irresponsibly than ever.
And how is it even remotely possible to care for a newborn while in a double corset without nannies, cooks, house keepers and the like?
OH WAIT, IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT EVEN REMOTELY POSSIBLE.
And a bunch of corset companies are now jumping on this declaration of "it was definitely worth it!" by promoting their wares to new mothers. Women who are exhausted, overwhelmed, fragile and stressed right out. As Erica recently said to me, "I don't know about you, but this grosses me out."
Yep. It grosses me out. It grosses me out and bothers me and makes me feel like I'm living in some kind of bizarro world where women are expected to be as thin as celebrities but without the money that they need in order to achieve the impossible standards set about for them.
And it also makes me feel like when I'm all out of rage, here comes another wave of it. Ladies, we need to stop making each other feel bad about every little thing. You never see men treating each other this way. We don't hear of men browbeating, humiliating and shaming other men for being differently shaped. Men don't expect other men to never change in appearance as they age, as they become fathers and as they mature. Why are we constantly doing this to each other? If we can't treat ourselves as equal and throw away all of these bullshit expectations, we won't ever have equality.
And please, for the love of all that is holy, don't you dare even consider corseting post-baby. Enjoy life. Eat a piece of cake. Go for a stroll with the fam. And stop expecting perfection, because it's our imperfections that make us all beautiful.
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