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With swimsuit season coming, it’s that time of year when I wish glaring at my stretch marks would make them go away. I love the look of halter tops and tied bottoms, but more often than not, I grab the modest tankini and a skirted bottom.
Representation of different body types is a huge problem in the media today. We constantly see the thin or hourglass shaped women in magazines and heavily photoshopped cover shoots. Where are the freckles and stretch marks that so many women are familiar with? Women don’t only come between a size zero and size four, so why don’t we see them in mass media?
Kendrick Lamar thinks things need to change and he shows it in his new song “Humble.” Aside from being riddled with religious symbolism throughout the song, everyone is focusing on natural body positivity, namely stretch marks. Halfway through the music video, a woman with beautiful makeup and smooth hair appears. The screen splits between her being done up and well-dressed down to a more natural and comfortable look. The accompanying lyrics are as follows:
YoutubeI’m so f*ckin’ sick and tired of the Photoshop
Show me somethin’ natural like afro on Richard Pryor
Show me somethin’ natural like ass with some stretchmarks
Still will take you down right on your mama’s couch in Polo socks, ayy
Twitter is in love. Soon after his music video dropped, body positive tweets flooded the site.
Didn't realize how much I wanted to see an ass like mine represented until I saw that ass w/ stretch marks in Kendrick's video #Humble 🙌🏾😭
— It’s Miss Tolerrrr (@suzie_melonz) March 30, 2017
Kendrick's put a girl in his video with no makeup, cellulite and stretch marks UR FAV JUST CANT #Humble
— excellesior (@lindseyaddawoo) March 31, 2017
Luv that Kendrick Lamar calls 4 natural beauty without filters & praises *sses with stretch marks in a time of filters & surgery bodies
— 👩🏼🎤 (@DopealiciousJ) March 31, 2017
The media definitely needs more body positive representation out there. It’s not right to normalize Photoshopping women into an ideal. It’s not right to praise natural beauty when you use models that have perfect airbrushed skin and edited body shapes. It’s time to tell women that we’re beautiful the way we are and that we should embrace our flaws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTRZJ-4EyI
