Body positivity for the win! Singer Bebe Rexha took to social media to share a super sexy bikini pic — but she made sure to share an important message along with it. The 29-year-old wanted to make sure fans and followers knew she was all-natural in the shot because of the societal pressure to edit photos.
“I probably should [have] photoshopped my stomach and made it look flat,” she captioned a photo posted to Instagram on May 17 of herself in a red bikini. “I probably should [have] photoshopped my legs to make them look thinner. I probably should [have] made myself look taller and smoothed my legs. But I didn’t. Society can really f—k with you. Here is what a real woman looks like on Instagram without photoshop.”
We don’t know about you, but we think she looks amazing — and definitely doesn’t need any editing.
This isn’t the first time the Brooklyn-born blonde has been vocal in the body positivity sphere. In fact, she called out designers who refused to dress her for her first Grammys as a nominee because of her size. Gross!
“So I finally get nominated at the Grammys and it’s like the coolest thing ever,” she revealed back in January. “And a lot of times artists will go and talk to designers and they’ll make them custom dresses to walk the red carpet. So I had my team hit up a lot of designers and a lot of them do not want to dress me because ‘I’m too big.’”
She continued with some fiery wisdom — and she was right on the money: “If a size 6-8 is too big, I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t want to wear your f—king dresses, ’cause that’s crazy. You’re saying that all the women in the world that are size 8 and up are not beautiful and they cannot wear your dresses. So to all the people who said I’m thick and I can’t wear your dress, f—k you, I don’t want to wear your f—king dresses.”
We love seeing the singer standing up for women everywhere and fighting the urge to be conventionally perfect. Thanks for setting an example, Bebe!
