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November 8, 2016 by Molly 5 Comments

Time waits for no mum (or dad)

June 20, 2013 by Molly 6 Comments

Hello and welcome! I'm Molly Forbes - podcaster, presenter and blogger with a passion for positivity, confidence and body image chat. Regularly writing and vlogging about empowering female issues from a motherhood angle, I also cover lifestyle and fashion topics for like-minded mums who want to rediscover themselves after having children. Thanks for stopping by! Read More…

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About time 2020 gave us some good news ❤️ #Bid

About time 2020 gave us some good news ❤️ #BidenHarris2020
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Art by @emilycoxhead
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[Image description: An illustration by Emily Coxhead. A red heart with the words love Trumps hate.]

It’s very important when you are a woman over th

It’s very important when you are a woman over the age of 35 to stick to muted shades and a classic, sophisticated colour palette..... LOL 😂 #BodyHappyMum
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[Image description: Molly stands against a yellow wall wearing bright pink dungarees, pink trainers, a lilac jumper and green puffer jacket. She is laughing.]

BUT WHAT ABOUT HEALTH?! They say. And I say, YES,

BUT WHAT ABOUT HEALTH?! They say. And I say, YES, WHAT ABOUT HEALTH?! Diet culture doesn’t care about health - it’s directly at odds with it.
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Diet culture is a system of oppression that values weight, shape and size over well being. It workshops thinness and equates it with health, moral virtue and worth. It’s a system of beliefs that leads to weight stigma, size discrimination and fatphobia, as well as bad body image which is linked to various health issues (physical and mental) along with eating disorders and disordered eating behaviours. Does this sound like a culture that values health?
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So yes, I care about the health of children. I care deeply about kids’ health, well-being, feelings of worth and happiness - they are all linked. Which is why I believe we need to cancel diet culture around kids.
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The thing is, you might think it’s already been cancelled. You might think that just cos you don’t go to a diet club or discuss weight loss in front of kids that they aren’t exposed to diet culture. It’s not as easy as that unfortunately, because diet culture is so normalised and deeply embedded it regularly appears in spaces where kids should be safest from body ideals - be it ads on school railings, comments in PSHE lessons or even rules in the dinner hall.
Kids are exposed to these messages everywhere - look at my post from 13th July for examples.
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If you’re interested in being part of the solution we have spaces on this week’s #BodyHappyKids workshop run by @amysnellingpt on Thursday at 5pm. It’s a one hour interactive session offering an introduction to this subject for teachers and youth leaders and has been delivered to over 150 people so far. Book your place via the link in my bio ❤️
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[ID: A pink graphic with yellow writing which says “Opting out of diet culture is not opting out of health”]

Just popping some aspirational half term content i

Just popping some aspirational half term content into your feed. Here we are enjoying an alfresco meal at a very swanky five star eaterie recently. Luckily I remembered that it’s super important to look effortlessly cool and sexy while being photographed eating, and not to appear like you’re simultaneously breaking wind and squinting up at a massive seagull trying to nick your chips. You’re welcome.
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[Image description: Molly and her two daughters sitting on a bench in the rain eating fish and chips. Molly is half grimacing, half smiling, trying to stop her hood blowing off her head and huddling from the wind.]

Did you know sex starts in the brain? In her brill

Did you know sex starts in the brain? In her brilliant debut book @rubyrare writes “If you think of the whole body as an orchestra, the brain is the conductor; it always takes centre stage.”
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She also explains how you need to be in the right frame of mind and environment to even want to have sex - which would explain why the stress of 2020, increased caregiving responsibilities for children, anxiety and general low mood have meant sex hasn’t been top of the agenda for lots of people this year, myself included.
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This book is beautiful (illustrations by @sofiebirkinillustration are 😍) but it’s also really bloody interesting. From gender identity to sexuality and attachment styles - and that’s just a couple of chapters in - Ruby gets into it with demystifying what is still a fairly taboo subject in a super inclusive, accessible and relatable way. All humans should read this book, but particularly parents who are interested in being armed with knowledge to discuss this stuff with their children at some point.
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I had a gorgeous chat with @rubyrare on @bodyconspodcast last year and love the work she’s doing in this field to open conversations and educate young and old on what is, ultimately, a massively important subject. So I wholeheartedly recommend you order yourself a copy of her brilliant book Sex Ed, A Guide for Adults. You won’t regret it. Happy publication day Ruby! 💕
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(I was lucky enough to be sent an early copy of the book.)
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[Image description: A photo of the book Sex Ed, A Guide for Adults, by Ruby Rare, illustrated by Sofie Birkin. The cover is red, pink and purple with embossed gold lettering and beautiful abstract illustrations of naked bodies.]

This man has known me at various different sizes.

This man has known me at various different sizes. He’s known me in a younger body, a heavily pregnant body, an exhausted postpartum body, and the body I have now - older, bigger, softer. And he’s accepted me at every size, every stage. Which is exactly how it bloody well should be.
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You do not owe anyone a particular type of body - not your partner, your parents, your friends, your ex, strangers on the internet. Your body is YOURS and it does not define you. And anyone who says it does doesn’t deserve you. That’s something I want my daughters to always know ✨
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[Image description: Molly and her husband Simon, standing on a bridge in Bath, hugging and smiling. It’s a sunny day and the sky is blue.]

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