A mother-of-two has taken to Facebook to celebrate her post-partum body.
N'tima Preusser decided to address the criticism that new mums often face by sharing snaps of her figure and penning an inspirational message.
She said: "'Hide it!' 'Tuck it in!' 'Get rid of it!' the world shouts at the parts of my body that carry proof of two pregnancies (in which I grew gigantic). These pieces of me are suppose to be gross, and unacceptable and embarrassing.
"But I spent way too long hating myself to add to that noise. I've spent way too long hating myself to waste any more time not loving the thing that I can attribute the most to my survival in this exhausting life."
"My body is responsible for persuading me to get out of bed when daylight was daunting. I put food in my own dang mouth when my brain had convinced me I didn't deserve to eat. My bones have born the weight of two perfect children, and sustained them as long as it was capable.
"And yeah, my hair is falling out in fistfuls. And some things hang lower and softer now that they exist. But my body is my trophy. My scars tell my stories. My body made me a mother, but my babies made me a woman. This figure is mine.
"I own every inch."
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