Estefanía Unzu is best known for Verdeliss, she has more than two million subscribers on YouTube and forms a very special family with her husband Aritz and their seven children, from Aimar, 15, to Miren, who is only one. The influencer and former contestant of ‘GH VIP’ has us used to always being spectacular but also to showing motherhood in a natural way, as it is.
So she has decided to put aside her shame and show on her Instagram profile how her gut really is to the rest of the mothers , “without adapting poses and selecting angles .”
She may not have the body of a model, but she does have the real body of a woman who has had seven children, breaking the beauty stereotypes set by society.
“For me it is an exercise in courage to expose myself”
Since she got pregnant with her last daughter, Miren (born in February 2019) the influencer has gotten us used to speaking openly about the two sides of motherhood and standing up for breastfeeding, also in public. She even published her last premature delivery on her YouTube channel.
But what is certain is that Verdeliss always looks spectacular in photos. Up to now. Although he has confessed to his more than a million followers on Instagram that he did not think to share the image, in the end he decided to do so, as he explains in the words that accompany an image of him in a bikini, bent over, taking care of his little daughter. Because “You know what? This is me too. And it’s okay ” :
“My first impulse was to discard this photo. And although I myself feel ridiculous admitting it, for me it is an exercise of courage to expose myself ”.
My first impulse was to discard this photo And although I myself feel ridiculous admitting it, for me it is an exercise in courage to expose myself. . I try to adapt poses, select angles, in which it comes out favored … but do you know what I AM ALSO? And it’s OK. . My belly is not perfect (according to normative beauty) and when I stoop there is no one who camouflages the excess skin. I have had 7 children, two of them even at the same time. I can’t change the aftermath, but I can decide my attitude. . 1 I feel ashamed. 2 My body has been powerful enough to create and nurture life … healthy enough to give birth, be food, sustain myself and still have energy for each day of parenting. . Each of the folds reminds me of it. I take option 2 and with this exhibition I raise it to the public hehe. . I do not promise many photos like that (I also have my internal crusades) but somehow, I feel reconciled. I owed it to my daughters and more transparent networks. We fight to eradicate stereotypes, but how many times are we the worst judges of ourselves. . #Verdeliss #ITambienTengoPliegues #MeQuiero
Among her blunt words she points out that her belly “is not perfect (according to normative beauty)” and that “when I bend over there is no one to camouflage the excess skin” , although her motherhood explains everything.
And after that step forward, she feels proud of what those traces have left on her silhouette, because “each of the folds reminds me of it” :
“My body has been so powerful as to create and shelter life, so healthy as to give birth, be food, sustain myself and continue to have energy for each day of parenting.”
Eradicate stereotypes
It is one of the purposes of publishing “the photo of the controversy” on Instagram, as she explains:
“I owed it to my daughters and to more transparent networks. We fight to eradicate stereotypes, but: how many times are we the worst judges of ourselves? ”.
And his followers have appreciated his personal proof of courage , because in just one day he has received nearly 100,000 likes and messages of support and complicity like these:
Among them, this message of gratitude for publications like these because “we need to normalize the ‘consequences’ of fertilizing that we do not change for anything, but they create internal crusades for us”.
Or this other mother who assures that external beauty is the least important.
Because as this other assures, the photo emanates love.
Even Armando Batista, who was a collaborator of Bebés y Más, wanted to leave his message of support to the influencer.
But it is not the only time that it has shown its vulnerability. A recent reflection of her, also on her Instagram channel, spoke of the need we have for the approval of others, so she was going to try to be more generous with her words, and it seems that also with gestures like this, capable of feeding the self-esteem of his followers because his body is also real.
Yesterday I was watching Got Talent (yes, sometimes I also take time off) and the jury was debating about self-confidence … that this is an individual work. True But then they interrupted with a contribution that also feeds on the approval of the environment. . And it left me such a reflection. How true it is … and how easy it is to contribute to personal growth, simply with a motivating word, a nice gesture, a positive reinforcement. . We can be key pieces in the realization of a person and this is extensible to education. I will try to be more generous in my words. When there is something good to value, it will be like love will never, ever harm excessively. . #Verdeliss. . Peto by @greencornerss
Of course, it also warns us that we are not going to see many images as natural as this one again, because it recognizes that it also has “internal crusades.”
Photos | Instagram Verdeliss
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