Her name is Elena Perminova, she is 28 years old, and she is a Russian top model who recently gave birth to her third child. This, in itself, is not news. What it is, is that after two weeks of giving birth, she began to exercise daily so that, after two months, she had been able to erase any external trace of a possible pregnancy, and that this be shown in Vogue magazine to promote such a performance.
It is not that I want to mess with this girl, who is very free to do with her life and her body what she wants, but when a fashion and trends magazine shows the world something like that (in reality, the model is not presenting any dress ), wants to tell us all, and above all, everyone, that the figure must try to recover it, if it can be, two months after giving birth.
As if that were not enough the pressure exerted on women, on young women and on girls, who every day directly and indirectly attend a rain of images and ideas, exhortations and rites aimed at being more beautiful, tall, thin, slender, educated, refined, blonde, brunette, with more eyelashes and more lip, with less nose and more chest, capable at work, at home, in life, in love and without sleeping time, that if you are sleepy you hold on and you exercise, they go in the magazine and they put you on a model demonstrating that in 60 days you can be the same or better than you were before.
It may seem harmless, it may seem like a simple photo, a simple comparison of the eight month pregnant model and then, two months after giving birth. In fact, we tend to banal it and normalize it because it is super usual. But it is perverse. It is harmfulor. It's about having a lot of bad milk. It is, because they know that practically nobody is going to get something like that. It is, because many people do not even feel the need to recover their figure, but with such a bombardment, they just wonder if they should not do something. It is, because they try to lay the foundations of what women should aspire to. And if they don't get it, well, hey, unhappiness sells, and a lot. And the mere fact of admiring the models already gives a lot of play, because those who try to look alike, not even a little, will spend a lot on magazines, dresses, hairdressers, shampoos, creams, makeups and all the list of treatments and associated accessories necessary for it.
I discover nothing. This has been going on for a long time and will continue to happen. Luckily, more and more mothers are responding to these provocations by saying, in Vogue itself, that "of course Elena is a beauty, but I would advise publishers to talk to an average young mom who can only sleep for two hours. at night and is responsible for preparing dinner "or that" on the one hand, I agree that childbirth is not a reason to give up seeing you well, and that every woman can eat well and exercise, but usually, young moms don't have nannies, they end up exhausted and all they want is sleep. "
And it is not only the mothers who respond that it is already good to mitigate the exercise and the body when you have just become mothers, there are also models that have done it, such as Lara Stone, who posed naked a year after giving birth to show that had not recovered his body from before being a mother.
How does she see it?
As they explain in Vogue, two weeks after giving birth she began to diet and began exercising daily, without resting from it for a single day. She explains it like this:
Doctors usually say 'yes' to sport only three months after delivery. But I started before, even though I had a C-section. My doctor allowed it because I felt very good. Naturally, at first I did not exercise much, or not to put at risk the chances of breastfeeding ... the most important thing is that I did not work the abs, it is dangerous immediately after birth.
Well, everyone who thinks about it. It seems perfect to me that, for health, if the body asks you to, exercise. But after giving birth, only for health, if the body asks you to and if you feel like it. And I would say that 99% of women who have just given birth all they think about is sleeping. Rest and sleep.
