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| PHOTO: Ashlee Wells Jackson |
An American photographer Ashlee Wells Jackson has launched a "4th Trimester Bodies Project" - a series of photos depicting the changes brought to women’s bodies by motherhood. She seeks to shine a light on cultural interpretations of female beauty and change women's expectations for themselves and those around them.
"[T]his project has been something that has felt a necessity in my mind for years now," she toldHuffPost. "After coming out the other side of a very traumatic pregnancy and birth experience myself and struggling with the strangeness of my new body, I felt like it was finally time to make this project a reality," Jackson added.
Jackson denies the "supremely sexualized" media and instead looks back to historical periods like the Renaissance when she feels the female form was viewed and valued differently. Today, she says, "most people simply have unrealistic expectations because they don’t know any better."
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