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Representation. That’s what I’m here for. I grew up in a body that look like other peoples but didn’t behave like them. Over the years, my shape changed along with my impairment and my ability to feel like I fitted slowly rubbed away. My secondary school was an incredible place, where i found a group of people who made me feel ‘home’. They were all disabled, all different sizes and all different shapes. We non of us cared about the physical shells we move around in because we all realised how futile it was to pin hopes on something so fragile. So instead we formed bonds that made us feel worthy and important despite that fact it was the first time most of us had ever seen bodies that look like our own. Leaving school and heading out into the world as a fat, queer, disabled woman was scary. I felt such deep shame about the way my body looked and how it differed to not just main stream media but those of the people around me. My Eating Disorder spiralled along side my shame and discomfort and like a ‘good little fatty’ I did my best to erase all aspects of ‘largeness’ within my self. That included my laugh. My sense of humour. My political thoughts. My queerness. My fat body and of course, my impairment. I am not here to explain my body to you. I’m not here to discuss my medical history or to justify why my body is the way it is. In the same way you wouldn’t expect a woman of colour to document her history or a trans woman to share her stages of transition. It’s disgusting to argue with marginalised women that their images must come with explanation or they are worthless. You are simply adding to our oppression and silencing our words. I’m here so that women who have bodies like mine get representation. I am here because no main stream media outlets highlight or celebrate disabled bodies. I’m here because you won’t see people like me modelling pretty bra’s or sexy nightdresses. I’m here because my body is just as worthy and important as the bodies the media is saturated with and it’s about time you all had the pleasure of sharing in unapologetically beautiful disabled bodies too. #NOTHINGABOUTUSWITHOUTUS

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Imogen Fox ? (@the_feeding_of_the_fox) am Jan 27, 2018 um 11:55 PST

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Imogen Fox @the_feeding_of_the_fox

Lange Zeit war Imogen unsicher und unzufrieden mit sich und ihrem Körper. Geboren mit einer Bindegewebestörung war es in der Schule nicht leicht für sie. Dazu kam Übergewicht, das beim Versuch abzunehmen in eine Essstörung umschlug. Ihre Krankheit wurde schlimmer, sie war auf einmal auf einen Rollstuhl angewiesen. Doch sie fand ihren Weg in die Self Love Community. Auf ihrem Blog schreibt sie: „It’s a truly terrifying prospect, giving up dieting, unlearning all the diet and media driven rhetoric, but it can’t be worse than where I’d found my self.“ Ihre Bilder auf Instagram lesen sich wie Tagebucheinträge mit allen dazugehörigen Ups and Downs.