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Cellfies, anyone?
When Chrissy Teigen Snapchatted her cellulite last year, girls around the world let out a collective sigh of relief. Cellulite, as it turns out, happens to the best of us. The snap immediately went viral, and we all felt pretty good about our lumps and bumps for a moment.
The good feels lasted a few days before our feeds went back to being bombarded with picture perfect tooshes, but for one blogger, the message of body positivity needed a longer lasting push. YouTube vlogger and Instagram star Kenzie Brenna has made it her mission to make the celebration of cellulite a weekly occurrence, posting a photo of her own cellulite every Saturday and encouraging others to follow suit.
Brenna’s #CelluliteSaturday has since gone viral, hitting a chord with women everywhere. And it’s no surprise — as it turns out over 98% percent of women actually have cellulite, but nobody, Brenna noted, was pointing this out.
While pretty much every image we see of a woman’s naked thigh is sans cellulite and smooth as a baby’s bum (which also have wobbles sometimes, just saying), it simply doesn’t make sense to shame girls for a feature of their body that the majority of us actually have too.
As Kenzie explained to People magazine: “But why? Women are genetically pre-dispositioned to it. Why am I being ashamed of something 90 percent of us have?”
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“I use social media as therapy. I find things I’m insecure or vulnerable about and I post a picture and write about my thoughts. Cellulite naturally came up because I feel ashamed about mine.”
Since the launch of Kenzie’s #CelluliteSaturday, an outpouring of support has come from stunning women on Instagram who have found sharing their own (completely normal) cellulite to be a healthy, cathartic message of body positivity.
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Whether you feel up to posting your cellfies online like Kenzie or not, she does remind us of the importance of turning the practise of self-love into a weekly habit. So if you’re feeling not so positive about your body, take a leaf from Kenzie’s book and incorporate a bit of self-care into your routine — whether that’s heading out for a pedicure, luxuriating in a hot bath or taking your own cellfie for the gram.