A blogger, Brooke Birmingham , participates with an article in a column in Shape Magazine, in which you had to document your weight loss. She does this and sends a picture of her in a bikini. She has lost about eighty kilos of weight , and in the photo of her you can also see the consequences of all those lost kilos: sagging, hollow skin, especially on the belly. The magazine rejects the photo saying that she should have put on at least a shirt , to cover the hollowed out skin of her belly. But Brooke doesn’t fit in and she posts the offending photo on her blog : if she’s losing so much weight it’s normal to have such a hollow stomach and sagging skin .

But it is her body and she is proud to show it like this: the photo has an incredible success on her blog , the magazine not only apologizes to this brave 29-year-old, but even commissions her new photos and a column of her own. The message? According to Brooke, it is important to give courage to all people who want to lose many pounds and change their life. Not because they should not accept themselves as obese, but precisely because it is essential to start from your health to change your life, and lose weight to get better, whatever shape our body then takes.