Natural beauty - or no thanks?
A new photo project documents and embraces the changes that motherhood makes to women's bodies. Take a look at some of the photos here and tell Jane what you think: beautiful, or best kept to ourselves?
The 4th Trimester Bodies Project is an ongoing photo documentary created by photographer and mother Ashlee Wells Jackson.
The project is dedicated to embracing the beauty inherent in the changes brought to our bodies by motherhood, childbirth and breastfeeding.
"We live in a society obsessed with perfection. The goal of this project is to shift that focus to the beauty of who we really are," says Jackson.
But there has been a mixed response, with Jackson facing censorship in the form of Facebook and Instagram banning her photos and locking her out of her accounts.
Jackson's depictions seem a lot more realistic then those we see of moms who two weeks later have back their washboard abs.
What sort of emotion do these pictures evoke in you?
Do they make you uncomfortable, or do you see this as a vision of 'natural' beauty?
- Jane
(All photos copyright Ashlee Wells Jackson, and via http://4thtrimesterbodies.com/)
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