Women Are Posting Pictures of Their 'Belly Jelly'
In a society filled with endless shaming trends, we need all the body-positive encouragement we can get. Recent challenges like the thigh gap, ab crack, bikini bridge, and hip dent tell women that their bodies aren’t good enough if they don’t subscribe to bizarre standards of thinness. Luckily, for every shaming trend, another body-positive trend emerges to push back.
The latest movement is #BellyJelly, which is exactly what it sounds like. The trend was started by an organization called Movemeant, which aims to help middle school girls feel comfortable with their bodies. “We all have it. She does. You do. So own it,” says an ad released by Movemeant. “When you own your belly jelly, you expose your grit. Your strength. Who you are.”
We love the trend for normalizing bellies and pointing out that even people with “gym bodies” have them.
Society is beginning to accept curvy bodies, but this has been mostly limited to hourglass shapes with tiny waists, and the #BellyJelly trend is filling a hole in the body positive movement.
A video posted by Nancy Lili (@fit_elvismilk) on Nov 17, 2016 at 6:11am PST
A photo posted by Julie Vincent (@julie_vincent_) on Nov 23, 2016 at 7:27am PST
#BellyJelly follows a series of body positive trends that have emerged to lift women up, including #MermaidThighs, which fights against the shaming thigh gap trend.
A photo posted by Lindsey Bent (@chasing.haley) on Mar 23, 2016 at 4:05am PDT
#TigerStripes encouraged women to be proud of their stretch marks.
A photo posted by deun ivory. (@deunivory) on Apr 25, 2016 at 6:31pm PDT
And #Fatkini helped showed women that bikinis aren’t just for thin women.
A photo posted by Ellie VB (@elliecurvywoman) on Nov 22, 2016 at 3:16am PST
A photo posted by นู๋น้าม ตัวกล๊มกลม (@nuunummii) on Nov 21, 2016 at 7:14pm PST
We’re glad to see a trend that embraces belly rolls for a change. Everybody has them.
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