Mom Goes Viral For Sharing Comment Shaming Her for Wearing a Bikini on Instagram

Sia Cooper is a private trainer and Instagram influencer who posted a picture of herself wearing a bikini. This brought about the mom-shamers to return out of the woodwork.

Sia is a non-public trainer, a fitness guru, an influencer, and a mom. She has over one million followers on Instagram at @diaryofafitmommyofficial, the place she stocks selfies and meal pics and provides us perception into her life. And she was just lately mom-shamed for sharing a photograph of herself wearing a bikini. 

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The photo, posted on November 4, displays Sia in a suit taking a look out at the ocean. "I remember when this photo was taken of me back in June in the Bahamas," her caption reads. "I didn't share it because I was so worried about my cellulite! I'm sharing it now because I want you ladies to feel empowered and to own your bodies. you are more than your dimples. Wear the damn swimsuit because life is too short! I love you all."

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It's a positive message, a prone publish about loving your frame even if you find yourself insecure about it. And while most of the feedback have been supportive, the mom-shamers also got here out in full force. "To show your gains you don't have to show your behind like that," one commenter wrote, "you are a mother, think about what your children see your behind in your posts in the future, unfollowed."

First of all, who is any person to pass judgement on how someone else parents, especially in such a public discussion board? The phenomenon of "mom-shaming" is a pervasive and damaging one. Sia is a private teacher and an influencer. Sharing her story and her body is part of her task. Not to mention, in that photo, she's promoting a wholesome dating with one's body! That comment is undermining the whole thing she's seeking to pontificate. 

In an interview with DIstractify, Sia said mom-shaming is one thing she offers with steadily. "I’ve been shamed for having tattoos as a mom and working out 'too much'" or even for "using canned goods in a recipe." She says, "Social media allows mom-shaming to happen more frequently because people type words they normally wouldn’t say in person."

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Sia answered to the shamer with her own powerful post that has since long past totally viral. "Since when were moms supposed to hide their bodies?" she asks. "Since when were bothers no longer allowed to feel sexy? How do you think babies even got here in the first place? [The mom-shamer] went on to say that I should think about what my kids will think of my behind someday. You know what? I want my kids to see a mother who's body positive. I want my kids to see a mother who's confident in her own skin."

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There's an erroneous and harmful notion that after women turn out to be moms, they stop to be ladies. A mom nonetheless has a frame, and she or he will have to be capable to do what she desires with it. In fact, Sia issues out, that when moms are ashamed of their bodies, their youngsters understand that, and they undergo on account of it. 

"If we don’t teach body positivity to our kids, they can grow up to [hate] their bodies due to society’s awful opinions of the 'ideal' body and how we should look, dress, and act," Sia instructed us. "I had a mother growing up who always stepped on the scale and nitpicked her body apart. She eventually started pointing out my own weight gain and I suffered many issues as a teen including poor body image and eating disorders. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I felt comfortable wearing shorts in public."

In her Instagram submit, she writes, "I would've given anything to have a body-positive mama and I make sure that my kids see and feel this positivity every day — not just with looks but with it all."

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So many people grew up with mothers who had been ashamed in their bodies. For so long, women's our bodies have been held to an unrealistic same old that has led to popular problems with self-acceptance and frame self belief. It's superb that Sia is in the market showing her kids that you just will have to love each side of yourself unconditionally, your frame incorporated. 

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Women's bodies are constantly sexualized without our permission, and the concept moms must "cover up" or dress "modestly" is just some other instrument of misogyny. "I'm pretty sure a male in a Speedo wouldn't get the same comment I did," Sia says. "Why should women be forced to cover up after having a baby?"

A woman in a bikini isn't an object. She is a person. And she do not have to hide herself away from the arena simply because she's given birth to children.

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"Sometimes, all a mother needs is to truly FEEL herself," Sia writes on Instagram. "Let's face it: motherhood can make use feel less than sexy. It leaves us drained, depressed, exhausted, and staring into a mirror, looking at a former shell of ourselves that we barely recognize anymore. And don't get me started on our postpartum bodies... It can be harder to celebrate our bodies when they're covered with stretch marks and loose skin."

"So mamas, put on your bikinis. You've earned it. Every woman deserves to feel comfortable in her own skin without society's judgy opinions. Let the mom-judging stop. Motherhood is already tough as it is. We are damned if we do, damned if we don't, so stay true to yourself."

For Sia, receiving this comment was once a chance to take something destructive and turn it into one thing sure. "Many women are told on a daily basis how they should look, feel, act, and dress," she says. "I even had one response from a lady on my post that she was told, as a pregnant woman, that she needed to cover up. Also, there was another woman who said she was told to cover up because she was 'old' at the age of 45. I speak for all women with my message — not just moms. I want to inspire moms to rock that bikini and be self confident no matter what people may say."

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