And isn’t it so much more empowering to focus on what our bodies can do rather than what they look like? My friend Jenny K has some interesting thoughts on this. She’s the mother of two young children and when she went to visit her sister recently, they decided to go swimming. Her sister, also a mother, was agonising about having to wear a swimsuit given her post-natal belly and the fact that she hadn’t gone for a bikini wax. ‘And I just thought, where did we get this shame from?’ Jenny K said. ‘Our bodies have given birth to children! We’ve got pubic hair because we’re not prepubescent. Who
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