This Is My Excuse

One mom has decided to take to Facebook to show moms that it's okay to have a few extra stretch marks.  She is fighting back against the woman who posted the post-baby bikini shot asking "What's Your Excuse?"

Taryn Brumfitt,35, is a mom of three who made it her mission to encourage women to live healthy and love their bodies at every shape and size.  She calls it the Body Image Movement.  Earlier this year her "before & after" photo went viral.

She says, “I’m on a quest to redefine and rewrite the ideals of beauty. Women have been brainwashed into thinking fat, wrinkles and cellulite are bad. They’re not. It’s just a part of being a human being,” Brumfitt told the Daily Mail.

She also addressed her critics, and wrote that she was not advocating a non-healthy lifestyle, but rather a healthy one that encompasses every part of what she considers health to be.

‘Health is physical, emotional and spiritual and so much more that is not visible and not always obvious to others,’ she wrote.

In her blog, Brumfitt details the changes her body has gone through over the years, in sometimes extremely personal detail, as part of her mission to be real with both herself and her audience. She hopes to empower women (and men) to embrace their body and all the changes it will endure throughout their lives, and in turn discover real health and happiness.