Woman proud of her curvy body shows confidence and poses in a bikini: “Wear whatever you want”

Celebrating body diversity and encouraging a positive attitude toward oneself are ideas promoted by movements such as ‘body positive’, a philosophy that promotes acceptance and self-love. It is important to understand that overweight can have consequences for a person’s physical health, but it also affects the emotional side.

The focus of this way of thinking is not on promoting an unhealthy lifestyle, but rather on challenging the stigma and negative judgments associated with weight. It is about cultivating a healthy relationship with the body and learning to value and respect oneself.

This is something a woman on social media understands very well, one who proudly shows off the body she has, demonstrating confidence when she poses in a bikini for her thousands of followers, assuring that she wears whatever she wants regardless of other people’s opinions about her appearance.

Known on TikTok as @spanxbeluga, she recently went viral with a video she uploaded to the platform that has received nearly 200,000 views. In it, you can see her trying on a two-piece swimsuit, fearlessly showing off her curves.

“What I wear to swim in my pool that makes my neighbor uncomfortable”, she wrote in the post, where she is initially shown wearing an orange dress. After a couple of transitions, she appears in her favorite light blue swimsuit.

“Wear whatever you want and let others let you live rent-free in their minds”, she declared in the post’s caption, thus promoting her way of thinking to other netizens.

Although she made her message very clear, the ‘trolls’ still did not hesitate to make offensive comments toward her.

“Too much skin on display. Respect yourself. Cover up”, said one person. “Dress for the body type you have, not for the body type you think you have”, wrote another. “You should be upset because it’s not healthy. I’m sorry”, added a third.

However, not all of them were attacks, since there were people who praised her for her bravery.

“You wear what you want, as I always say, forget everyone else, you only live once”, one person commented.

“Why does it make her neighbors uncomfortable? It’s your body, you choose what you wear”, said another. “¡This is the cutest bikini I’ve ever seen! Where can I find one like that?”, someone else commented.