EARLIER this week I posted a naked selfie on my Instagram Stories. Just a 53-year-old female body with its back to the bathroom mirror.
No make-up. No filters. I captioned it “reclaiming my body”. It was neither pre-planned nor especially well thought out. And it seems to have touched a nerve because the response was considerable.
For the sake of my children, it was not full-frontal or explicit. Nor was it outrageous. It was just me. And for the record, children, I honestly don’t care much for your embarrassment.
My body. My rules. The intention behind the post was not to offend, outrage, challenge or disturb. It was a note to myself — a reminder that for all that my body has endured, I now need to reclaim it and do something I’ve never.
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