Shape of a Mother

I used to love visiting Shape of a Mother as I thought it was a beautiful sentiment - that women could see just how normal their body was as either a pregnant woman or a post-baby woman. The photos were sometimes confronting, but in a beautiful way. Dark, mysterious, you look at the stretch marks and rub and touch your own nodding your head thinking "I have the same ones".

But now SOAM is really starting to piss me off. Many of the photos have become sexualised, posed, almost pornographic. I have no problems with nudity at all, and think the program has been wonderful, but why are women all of a sudden needing to do sultry eyes, bum-in-the-air, pornesque shots? You don't need to make yourself look sexy to the audience. Sure, take sexy photos for your partner, show off everything, but women don't need to compare themselves to someone who's trying to look hot in a little lacy knicker set.

We are mums or mums to be trying to come to terms with our new and improved baby bodies, even if that improvement includes a road map of lines. Why do we need to look at soft-porn in the process?

/rant