It is clear that recent moms have a belly, although few dare to show it, and The "4th Trimester Bodies" project, "Fourth Quarter Bodies", focuses precisely on teaching the real bodies of women after their pregnancies.
The objective of this series of photographs is to claim the woman's body from the experience of motherhood. A project with which the author wants to help foster a vision away from the impossible physicists of models and magazines while claiming the beauty of the woman without retouching.
It reminds us of the photo book "A beautiful body", which we talked about a while ago, which has the same purpose.
In these beautiful photographs no touches have been made, and the curves appear as they are, stretch marks, belly after delivery and even dark circles if there are any. And it is increasingly common to say "enough" to that idealized and unreal image of perfect mothers the day after giving birth.
The author of "4th Trimester Bodies Project" is the American photographer specializing in pin-up and boudoir aesthetics, Ashlee Wells Jackson. He is doing a kind of "tour" capturing the snapshots of mothers who wish to pose with their babies, without touch-ups.
The idea arose after suffering a traumatic experience after her own pregnancy and childbirth, having failed to accept her new body, something we talked about a few days ago: recovering the figure after childbirth is not simple or necessary. Our mediated environment has shown us unreal bodies and we should not compare ourselves with them.
In each of the photographs of "4th Trimester Bodies Project" we are explained what the mother's situation is, how the baby (or babies) was born, the comparison with the previous weight, with a special mention of breastfeeding ( if this was possible or not, if it helped the mother lose weight ...). I recommend you take a look at his gallery, which increases every day.
The project of photographs of the true body after giving birth "Bodies of the fourth quarter" It offers real expectations for many women who will see many changes in their body and do not look beautiful with their new appearance. But in the photos we see them beautiful and happy with their babies, despite the stretch marks or the extra kilos.
Official Site | 4th Trimester Bodies On Babies and more | Return (or not) to recover the figure after childbirth, A beautiful body, photographs of bodies of real mothers, Famous after childbirth: everything that glitters is not gold
