Post Mother’s Day, New Mothers Redefine ‘Perfect’ Pregnancy Bodies

New mothers are sharing unfiltered pictures of their postpartum bodies to encourage body positivity.

A woman’s body is always up for scrutiny, especially when she is pregnant.

To redefine societal expectations, one woman in the US shared a photo of her unfiltered postpartum body. What started as an innocuous post snowballed into a social media movement soon after, with many new mothers sharing pictures of their ‘honest’ bodies.

Meg Boggs, the creator of the #this_is_postpartum movement, told CNN that she was struggling with a negative body image and “felt as if my postpartum journey and body didn’t count.”