Ni NORA CALDERON

UMANI ng libu-libong likes ang post ni Kylie Padilla sa Instagram laban sa bashers ng katawan niyang lumaki after isilang ang kanyang baby boy na si Alas Joaquin. Nawala na raw kasi ang sexy figure niya. Ito ang explanation niya:

“I really didn’t want to make this a big deal because honestly, it isn’t but I wanted to have my say before I go ‘lose this baby weight and be societies definition of sexy’ again. I recently experienced some body shaming on my last post at the gym and I didn’t really get my feelings hurt but I had this thought, people know I just gave birth right? Still, comments kept coming in about how fat I was. And I guess what, yes, I am fat. I am overweight. 

'Iconic women!' Pinakamalaki at pinakamaliit na babae sa buong mundo, nagkita!

Whatever these things people tell me that is supposed to make me feel guilty or bad. Fine, but the thing is I have never felt so confident, so happy and so in love with my body. Stretch marks and all.

“Before I have a baby I had a body that was hungry, a body I treated so badly that I got used to being depressed only because I was starving. A body I was disappointed with, no matter how thin and tired I was still was not happy because I let society tell me my body was not ‘perfect.’ So even after carrying a baby for 9 months and giving birth to a new life I still fall under ‘fat’ or ‘curvy’. No label or opinion is going to stop me from being proud of myself that first I am now a mother and two, that finally I can choose to be happy no matter how imperfect people or culture says I am.

“And I have more priorities to prioritize. First and foremost a baby that needs his constant supply of milk and a body that needs to recover, heal and be nourished, with food and exercise. And oh, a man that actually enjoys this curvy body. Kulang pa nga, eh, feeling ko mas masaya ang baby ko kung mas malaki pa ako.

“P.S. There is no sin in being confident no matter what size, shape, color even race you are. Don’t let people shame you.”

Marami ang sumuporta kay Kylie tulad ni Pauleen Luna Sotto na magiging mommy na rin sa December, sina Carla Abellana, Gabbi Garcia, ang moms din na sina Sarah Labhati at Diana Zubiri, at maging si Rocco Nacino at si Iza Calzado at libu-libong fans and friends na nag-like sa kanyang post.