All women deserve to feel beautiful and sexy. No matter their shape and size.
No matter their actual or perceived status of health.
This is why Gillette Venus makes it a point to represent all different types of women on their social media and other types of promotional imaging.
Basically, they want to show real women as they are in real life.
And, for some reason, some people hate the company for this.
This might be because media has traditionally depicted thin white women as the pinnacle of beauty.
Even though some of those women arrived at their thin statures through extremely unhealthy means.
We’ve heard the stories about actresses abusing drugs and models eating cotton balls and orange juice because of the pressure from the people who pay them to stay skinny.
So, for years society has seen these unhealthy women as beautiful.
But no one ever complained or spoke out about this until women started standing up for themselves.
Now times have changed. Women are creating their own standards of beauty and are breaking all the rules in the process.
But not everyone is on board. Not everyone wants to see realistic looking women in the media.
Every time Gillette Venus posts a picture of a pregnant woman or a woman with postpartum stretch marks, with vitiligo, or thick thighs… some people complain.
They cringe and make terrible comments about the women they see and vow never to buy their products.
What’s even more hilarious is the fact that lots of these comments come from men.
Men who are following a women’s razor company on social media so they can time out of their day to troll their ads.
How sad is that?! Anyway, these troubled angry souls do exist.
Well, they might be bots but their comments are there nonetheless.
The trolls really came out when Gillette Venus shared a picture from Style Plus Curves page featuring plus-size model Anna O’Brien who runs the blog Glitter + Lazers.
Some accused the company of promoting unhealthy lifestyles and obesity by depicting O’Brien in a bikini looking comfortable and happy in her own skin.
But Gillette Venus is not about to back down. They sell their razors to real-life women and they intend to show real-life women in their ads and on their social media accounts.
“Venus is committed to representing women of all shapes, sizes, and skin types because ALL types of beautiful skin deserve to be shown. We love Glitter + Lazers because she lives out loud and loves her skin no matter how the ‘rules’ say she should display it,” the company said in a Facebook comment.
Lots of Gillette Venus’ followers commended the company for representing all types of real women.
As for O’Brien, who has more than 321,000 followers on Instagram and speaks to crowds around the world, she doesn’t hear the haters.
“Don’t wait for anyone else’s permission to live and experience all you can in your body. We don’t remember the number on our jeans of the shape of our hips and stomach on a beach,” the influencer said on Instagram. “We remember the sand between our toes.”
“We remember running into the waves. We remember how cold the water was. We remember how sand got everywhere. We remember how we laughed and forgot for an instant everything we should be. We just were. Joy comes from the experience, not from the size of the body we live it in.”
Thanks to people like O’Brien and companies like Gillette Venus it’s a new day. A day where there is no room for hate… only love. Love of ourselves and each other.
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