Sex/Life on Netflix Is a Steamy Celebration of the Post-Baby Body

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Sex/Life that set my group chat alight. Actually there are lots of scenes in Sex/Life setting my group chat alight but, as my friends and I made our way through of the ridiculously steamy Netflix show which spotlights female desire, one of us posted, with euphoria of a different kind, about a kitchen moment in episode two.Billie, the show’s protagonist and a mom of two who is having and instigating great sex, stands naked but for her underwear on a second date.

The actor who plays her, 43-year-old Sarah Shahi, a mom of three, looks hot as hell as her new love interest traces his finger down her stomach, touching her crinkled skin and passing the stretch marks that she picked up from having twins in real life.My friend messaged on WhatsApp: “This woman is ‘of an age’ and her body is obviously one that has had children and she is not perfect but still full on naked and stunning with these amazing flaws.” We’re all in our thirties or forties and we’ve all had kids. “Honestly made me look at my own rapidly descending boobs and I’m ok with it,” she added.“Totes agree,” said another. “I loved this too,” chimed a third.To show the telltale signs of motherhood through the lens of what is sexy is still so rare, on screen, as to be a talking point.

Like model and mother , who has celebrated her stretch marks in photo shoots, or , another mother of three who bats away Instagram followers asking if she’s pregnant every time the shape of her perfectly normal and healthy stomach is on display, Shahi is pushing the envelope in a Hollywood that still, typically, asks its female actors to erase or hide the physical transformations that stem from pregnancy.