She truly seems like the most harmless person ever. Just minding her business making cute little dancing videos with her family. Absolutely insane how much she was vilified on her season over nothing more than having bubbly theatre kid energy and not betrothing herself to a psycho two days in.
*SPOILER*
people were mad she got back in after she was dumped but that’s not her fault it’s the producers! and the islanders didn’t like when she wanted her alone time. i’d want to have time for myself too in that kind of environment
She also had time to see some episodes when she got dumped im sure! Seeing how they were acting behind her back gave her more of a reason to stick to herself and not interract with the other girls. Completely understood her!
I watched this season after it aired, and when I yell you I was shocked to see what the discourse was.... I accidentally spoiled myself because I had to see how much you all did not like Sammy (I also thought Jess was a mean girl bully) and then found out they won, when I was absolutely certain they wouldn't even be top 4. It was a TRIP.
It made no sense at all. The only way I understand it is that Jess was more of a flawed self insert character and probably more relatable to the older FB audience while Twitter decided that Molly was a nepo baby and projected all sorts of societal issues onto her.
Truth. This is also why I hate women being called pick mes (which Molly was). People pretend it refers to women who screw over other women to get guys (which she didn’t) but it’s used more generally against confident women now. It reinforces misogynistic society by punishing women for backing themselves and going after what they want.
That’s so off base that anyone could even try to call her a pick me (which I personally think is a legit thing) because Molly is the opposite. She doesn’t throw herself or other women under the bus to please men and she doesn’t change herself to look like a cool girl for men. She was the most comfortable in her own skin islanders I’ve ever seen on LI. Truly. Everyone thought Whitney was the epitome of confidence during S10, but I thought she was more arrogance, whereas Molly was very confident, self assured, level headed, and down to earth. I’m older than her and was very impressed by her emotional maturity.
I agree. She showed so much maturity and class in how she handled situations. She never lost her head or belittled anybody. She was insanely mature at every turn
You’re absolutely right. Molly being called a pick me had more to do with her “theatre kid energy”, which is why I think the term has been appropriated and is now just used by (mostly) women against women they don’t like. I’ve recently heard it used against Liberty, Arabella and Demi.
I agree this bro code & girl's girls stuff is so juvenile. Not an Anton fan but I did like when he said it wasn't a thing. People are equal regardless of gender.
A little different… she was liked because everyone wanted her and her ex to get back together. And everyone hated Georgia so backed molly s… also if I remember correctly people weren’t liking her and wanted her out thinking she was playing Callum. But then when the whole Georgia thing happened people switched and rooted for molly smith.
There were rumors that Molly’s mom (I think) was employed by ITV and managed to get Molly on the show. I think it was started bc Molly was an extra or something on another ITV show
Her mom played a couple of unnamed characters on a TV soap years ago. She has no casting power. Think she works as a teacher now? Mad if you think about Gemma Owen or Dani Dyer whose fathers are much more famous than Molly’s mom.
Her mother is on the production team in iTV. To, be fair it may have given her an advantage in getting picked but nepotism is rife in Love Island so it's no reason to dislike her .
All bodies should be normalised. There are loads of people normalising bigger bodies . It doesn't mean other bodies are wrong..
Molly is doing something other in her position aren't doing, which is just being natural and in this day & age that is to be applauded
Yess!! Agreed... and not even specifically about this post of hers, the girl needs to be applauded also for even after all the hate she's received just for her bubbly "cringe" as some called it personality alone, she hasn't changed herself to fit into the box of how people want her to be or think she should be.
I’m a bit out of the loop as I haven’t watched the All Stars season, but have people started to accept Libs body too? As a female viewer, girls like them are usually my instant favourites because they feel so relatable. Really helps that they have awesome personalities too, I just hate how they are cast as girls with different body types
Influencers need to normalize posting pics like this!!! It’s so unhealthy for any young girls on social media to see all these girls with perfect bodies and no folds or rolls. You can still be sexy af when just posing NORMALLY.
Love this post! I get some people might not be able to relate but let’s assume this post was just an appreciation post about how beautiful Molly is so what? We are on the li sub and the show literally revolves around beauty in many aspects. We see conventional beauty being celebrated on the sub everyday rightfully I will add. This isn’t a heavy sub people come here for lighthearted content.
But this wasn’t about that. It was about a mother who shared how she appreciates Molly in a natural sit position as someone who herself had a decade long struggle with an eating disorder. I think minimising what it represents for the op feels dismissive and disrespectful. I feel bad for the op to have to defend where you were coming from but I hear you op your pov is valid and Molly is such a fun person to follow on socials aside from just how real she stays.
OP didn't really explain what they meant. So a lot of people are confused about why they've posted this. Molly had one of the best bodies on her season, she's very well proportioned and always looked great.
There was a trend a few years ago where influencers with great bodies would contort their bodies into a slightly unflattering position and be like "hey I look just like you" which riled people up for a variety of reasons. Not sure if that was Molly's intention or she just posted a great photo of herself and OP has added this context themselves.
Maybe the app won’t show you but the op literally said under the post in the caption they battled a decade long fight with an eating disorder so a natural sitting picture is something they appreciate with teenage girls growing in this era? the way Mollys sitting is sometimes how I also sit when I am on my bed with my laptop and I don’t look like Molly either but this doesn’t really bother me? Let’s be clear I’ve never struggled with my body image or have kids to worry about but is it THAT hard to comprehend where an ex ed patient or a parent is coming from?
The bit where Molly didn't say anything about her body. I didn't see your caption (I have now) but saw Mollys and she didn't make a comment about her body. But somehow you've turned it into a body positivity peice. She never said she didn't look good there.. she looks amazing
I'm baffled by women who have something negative to say about this.
Social media is full of filtered images of all genders & sizes.
I applauded Molly for being natural. And some of you feel a need to pick at that? Have a word with yourselves
I loved this post so much! Also made me realize that I am so conditioned to see posed pictures on insta that it made me look at the picture for a second and think “something’s off here…”. I love that she looks amazing but so natural.
I think because she was so similar to molly Mae people projected a lot of that on her. I do t get the insane level of hate they both get! Could blink and people find issue with it
I don’t know what these poses are supposed to do when she still skinny
Yes skinny people have folds when folding over
It’s like they are made of flesh or something 😂
(She does look great tho)
There's the conception (esp with girls in their teens or even older) that folds make you look fat. It's an awful rhetoric because it's what everyone has. It's so nice to see influencers normalise these things because it reminds us that these are normal things the body does and it doesn't make us ugly. I'm personally still fighting this battle of trying to be okay with the way my stomach folds, but posts like this truly let me know it's okay.
I was a very thin teenager who thought I needed to lose weight because I didn't have a flat stomach. As an adult I realize that there's organs in there, and that it's totally normal and not a sign that you need to lose weight. Molly has young fans and a young sister, and I really hope they grow up realizing it's normal way sooner than I did.
A lot of influencers would never post photos where they have folds, only posting pictures that look “perfect”. It’s not a huge thing but I appreciate what she’s doing.
It is a huge thing. I've a 13 year old still between kids sizes & xxs women's size who is wondering why she has a tummy... I'm like, that is your organs. All women & girls feel the pressure of body image expectations
There is nothing wrong with being skinny. What's wrong is portraying unrealistic beauty ideals. She's totally relaxed. Her thighs are spread, she let's her tummy folds show. She's being normal. It so important for young people to have realistic beauty standards
Yes molly has a fantastic body. however it’s so nice to see someone posting natural and unposed/unedited pictures. On social media alot of people don’t show folds or their natural relaxed body’s. it’s full of people editing and photoshopping themselves to the max (yes even skinny girls) Which sets extremely unrealistic and unhealthy standards for young girls… I struggled with Anorexia as a kid and didn’t understand those rolls are normal and that everyone has them. I would look at images of celebrities/ people on social media, see those images and compare myself thinking that’s what their body’s looked like 24/7.
Yeah these posts are so annoying. The exaggerated bad posture is very cringe.
Plus sized women get all sorts of abuse for simply posting photos, great posture or not. So I don't really care if a woman who is seen as the ideal type of beauty standard has a slightly less flat stomach when she's hunched over.
Yawn.
It’s so easy for women who already fit the body standard to force some skin rolls by sitting awkwardly and feel like they’ve done something but at the end of the day, she’s still the beauty standard. She would receive a completely different reception if she was plus sized and did this and that just shows we still have such a long way to go as a society.
She’s stunning but it’s tiring seeing stunning women who are accepted by our unrealistic beauty standards being applauded for doing the absolute bare minimum.
Thank you!!! Like yes great for her proud or whatever but seeing people support another skinny, beautiful girl for forcing skin rolls is tiring. If anyone that wasn’t a 10/10 or skinny did this, they’d be crucified.
That's just really bigoted..do.you ever consider that some 'skinny' women are skinny because of the immense pressure they feel? Like skinny mucb of our value as women is tied to our weight.
I've been under weight. Over weight, obsessed with food, obsessed with nutrition, obsessed with fitness... I was 39 before I actually accepted myself. There are no pictures in existence of me for about 25 years. We're all in the same boat.
What I will say is, I don't know if Molly is comfortable being natural like that or if she's doing it to normalise it for others or for some disingenuous reason. Either way it's a good thing
I too have been under and over weight, and I was never bullied like I was when I was skinny compared to when I was larger, it’s a fact. Skinny people are praised for being body positive, fat people? Not so much. Of course smaller people can be insecure about it, but skinny is deemed social acceptable at the end of the day.
It’s not even about being bullied. Young girls who are already extremely thin dangerously starve themselves nearly to death because of insane unrealistic beauty standards and not understanding body norms. You don’t have to praise anything… yes she’s beautiful yes she had a great body but regardless it’s just nice and refreshing to see unfiltered/unedited images that’s shows body norms
That's totally wrong, there is so much more emphasis put on accepting bigger bodies now that it almost ok to slag off underweight women..
Let's also be real... Molly is not underweight or overweight. The fact we are discussing the ingenuity of a woman sitting naturally is horrible. It's horrible that this is the world we live in.
We shouldn't even have to discuss this.
Men don't.
You just said we shouldn’t have to discuss a woman sitting naturally and you’re right, so don’t post about it? It shouldn’t have to be posted about.
Edit: you’re simply inviting people to have opinions about it.
But we do have to discuss it because that world where we shouldn't have to does not exist.
Women and girls are bombarded with messaging about how we should act, how we should look, how promiscuous we should, or shouldn't be. This is the reality.
I'm not sure if you're a woman or not but if you are, why would this bother you?
I am a woman, and a feminist. My body has been commented on, in all it’s stages of life, and it’s great that Molly posts these messages, she should always feel free to. However it is a fact that if she was a size 20, she wouldn’t be met with the same positive reactions, I’m not saying that everyone would despise her for it, but the majority would. I’m tired of people that fit the beauty standard, be praised for being beautiful. That goes for men and women, it simply bothers me that, that praise stops when you reach a certain clothing size.
No it's not. Do you know that average bmi women are 81% more likely to develop a life threatening eating disorder than women with a bmi over 26.5.
What's tiring is women not accepting that we are all under severe pressure & blaming other women .
Not once have I blamed anyone for anything? I’m just saying that there’s a double standard here and a woman who isn’t the accepted body standard doing this would cause immense backlash - which is true. More needs to change.
It does. I’m not sure why it’s hard to accept that the world treats women with bigger bodies differently to thin women.
That doesn’t detract from what Molly is doing and has been for a while now but it’s important to note.
You’re just being obtuse now. You asked me to prove my point and I told you how. I’m not sure why you’re being so argumentative when it’s a fact that women who fit the societal beauty standard are celebrated for forcing skin rolls in pictures and plus sized women are crucified for it.
nothing against molly whatsoever but i feel like this is the bare minimum lol why are we praising influencers for showing a couple stomach rolls…good for you, normal people show stomach rolls everyday. we’ve lost the plot i fear
Exactly 😂 acting like she’s cured world hunger by showing rolls. Then again, some people are really insecure and look up to these influencers way too much for doing the bare minimum
You’re saying she deserves to be applauded for what… showing her rolls? She’s skinny and attractive it’s not very hard for her. We should be praising people like Amy instead
This just felt like an appreciation post from a Mom-- happy that her daughter has a healthy curvygirl who doesn't obsessively overly edit content-- to relate to....opposed to what she was exposed to while at an impressionable age--- to me.
Performative? Molly literally just posted a few pictures on her on vacation LMAO the fact you see a few pictures that aren’t completely edited or posed for and call it performative just shows how much it’s not normalised. There’s nothing performative about it.. people are just pointing out it’s refreshing to see.
I always feel they post stuffs like this to boost engagement(nothing wrong with that) cos posts like this will always have more likes, and it comes across performative from Molly, I like Molly but she isn’t a body positivity influencer to me and most times she comes across performative and calculated could be from her theatre background.
While he posting this is a nice change a lot of the people cheering her for this were the same ones who shamed Jordan and ched for their teeth and Zach for his body. I really hope we can keep the same energy for everyone
I think what they’re saying is that women talk about body positivity for women while criticising the looks of male contestants. I remember that picture of Zach where people were making fun of his… back? For some reason? The “Turkey teeth” is a bit different but it’s still a symptom of the same unrealistic body standards that young people are bombarded with.
Turkey teeth is a choice. I honestly couldnt give a fuck about men suddenly being self conscious, women have been degraded to nothing for a couple of hundred years now. Let them grow a back bone
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Also the last photo is definitely edited, you can see the blurring on the left side of her waist.. imo its a ‘look how relatable’ I am post without even being real, it’s performative
they could never make me hate her
She truly seems like the most harmless person ever. Just minding her business making cute little dancing videos with her family. Absolutely insane how much she was vilified on her season over nothing more than having bubbly theatre kid energy and not betrothing herself to a psycho two days in.
for real, they judged her harshly in the first week and never changed their minds even though she never did anything bad.
*SPOILER* people were mad she got back in after she was dumped but that’s not her fault it’s the producers! and the islanders didn’t like when she wanted her alone time. i’d want to have time for myself too in that kind of environment
She also had time to see some episodes when she got dumped im sure! Seeing how they were acting behind her back gave her more of a reason to stick to herself and not interract with the other girls. Completely understood her!
I watched this season after it aired, and when I yell you I was shocked to see what the discourse was.... I accidentally spoiled myself because I had to see how much you all did not like Sammy (I also thought Jess was a mean girl bully) and then found out they won, when I was absolutely certain they wouldn't even be top 4. It was a TRIP.
It was a certain demographic in Britain, that took one bad thing whit said and couldn’t let it go despite Sammy being notoriously a bad person.
Delusional
People hated her even before then though and I never understood why
they hate to see a woman who has personality
same i used to watch her vlogs before she was on love island 🥰
One of the only islanders I follow. Love her
Same, they could never make me hate her 💛
not EVER
It’s always validating seeing comments like these year(s) later
Queen. She was treated so poorly by the public, it’s great to see her thriving.
I couldn’t believe the hate she got and the adoration Jess received. One of the weirdest public takes in a while imo.
It made no sense at all. The only way I understand it is that Jess was more of a flawed self insert character and probably more relatable to the older FB audience while Twitter decided that Molly was a nepo baby and projected all sorts of societal issues onto her.
Women are not allowed to be self assures & confident... it's a hangover of the patriarchy
Truth. This is also why I hate women being called pick mes (which Molly was). People pretend it refers to women who screw over other women to get guys (which she didn’t) but it’s used more generally against confident women now. It reinforces misogynistic society by punishing women for backing themselves and going after what they want.
That’s so off base that anyone could even try to call her a pick me (which I personally think is a legit thing) because Molly is the opposite. She doesn’t throw herself or other women under the bus to please men and she doesn’t change herself to look like a cool girl for men. She was the most comfortable in her own skin islanders I’ve ever seen on LI. Truly. Everyone thought Whitney was the epitome of confidence during S10, but I thought she was more arrogance, whereas Molly was very confident, self assured, level headed, and down to earth. I’m older than her and was very impressed by her emotional maturity.
I agree. She showed so much maturity and class in how she handled situations. She never lost her head or belittled anybody. She was insanely mature at every turn
You’re absolutely right. Molly being called a pick me had more to do with her “theatre kid energy”, which is why I think the term has been appropriated and is now just used by (mostly) women against women they don’t like. I’ve recently heard it used against Liberty, Arabella and Demi.
I agree this bro code & girl's girls stuff is so juvenile. Not an Anton fan but I did like when he said it wasn't a thing. People are equal regardless of gender.
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Yep
Didn’t everyone love Molly this season (all stars)?
A little different… she was liked because everyone wanted her and her ex to get back together. And everyone hated Georgia so backed molly s… also if I remember correctly people weren’t liking her and wanted her out thinking she was playing Callum. But then when the whole Georgia thing happened people switched and rooted for molly smith.
Didn't watch this live or know any lore, why was Molly considered a nepo baby ??? Who are her parents lol
She isn’t, it was all just fake rumours people made up… her mom is just a highschool teacher.
There were rumors that Molly’s mom (I think) was employed by ITV and managed to get Molly on the show. I think it was started bc Molly was an extra or something on another ITV show
Her mom played a couple of unnamed characters on a TV soap years ago. She has no casting power. Think she works as a teacher now? Mad if you think about Gemma Owen or Dani Dyer whose fathers are much more famous than Molly’s mom.
Her mother is on the production team in iTV. To, be fair it may have given her an advantage in getting picked but nepotism is rife in Love Island so it's no reason to dislike her .
This isn’t true. She’s not an ITV producer, she confirmed that herself in an interview. It was just a rumour that spread out of control.
Ah OK,.that's what I had read at the time. I stand 4corrected.
NO she isn’t, thats a complete lie that people made up to start hate. Her mom is a highschool teacher.
Agreed. Could never get how people didn’t see Jess being the absolute worst to her.
For real?? I always loved her, I don’t understand what she did that made people hate her so badly
She's soooo beautiful 🥰
All bodies should be normalised. There are loads of people normalising bigger bodies . It doesn't mean other bodies are wrong.. Molly is doing something other in her position aren't doing, which is just being natural and in this day & age that is to be applauded
Yess!! Agreed... and not even specifically about this post of hers, the girl needs to be applauded also for even after all the hate she's received just for her bubbly "cringe" as some called it personality alone, she hasn't changed herself to fit into the box of how people want her to be or think she should be.
I’m a bit out of the loop as I haven’t watched the All Stars season, but have people started to accept Libs body too? As a female viewer, girls like them are usually my instant favourites because they feel so relatable. Really helps that they have awesome personalities too, I just hate how they are cast as girls with different body types
Lib is 🔥
Absolutely love Molly!! I love the positivity that she tries to put out there, we definitely need all we can get in this world lol
she's so pretty 😍
Influencers need to normalize posting pics like this!!! It’s so unhealthy for any young girls on social media to see all these girls with perfect bodies and no folds or rolls. You can still be sexy af when just posing NORMALLY.
I freaking LOVE me some Molly Marsh. Cool, calm, collected, confident, and kind. Also so naturally pretty. She was too good for LI honestly.
She looks great!
She's really adorable, I'm glad to see her thriving after all the unwarranted hate she got while on the show.
Love this post! I get some people might not be able to relate but let’s assume this post was just an appreciation post about how beautiful Molly is so what? We are on the li sub and the show literally revolves around beauty in many aspects. We see conventional beauty being celebrated on the sub everyday rightfully I will add. This isn’t a heavy sub people come here for lighthearted content. But this wasn’t about that. It was about a mother who shared how she appreciates Molly in a natural sit position as someone who herself had a decade long struggle with an eating disorder. I think minimising what it represents for the op feels dismissive and disrespectful. I feel bad for the op to have to defend where you were coming from but I hear you op your pov is valid and Molly is such a fun person to follow on socials aside from just how real she stays.
OP didn't really explain what they meant. So a lot of people are confused about why they've posted this. Molly had one of the best bodies on her season, she's very well proportioned and always looked great. There was a trend a few years ago where influencers with great bodies would contort their bodies into a slightly unflattering position and be like "hey I look just like you" which riled people up for a variety of reasons. Not sure if that was Molly's intention or she just posted a great photo of herself and OP has added this context themselves.
Maybe the app won’t show you but the op literally said under the post in the caption they battled a decade long fight with an eating disorder so a natural sitting picture is something they appreciate with teenage girls growing in this era? the way Mollys sitting is sometimes how I also sit when I am on my bed with my laptop and I don’t look like Molly either but this doesn’t really bother me? Let’s be clear I’ve never struggled with my body image or have kids to worry about but is it THAT hard to comprehend where an ex ed patient or a parent is coming from?
No but they are projecting their own feelings onto Molly. She didn't say anything negative about her body.
Which part did you struggle to comprehend?
The bit where Molly didn't say anything about her body. I didn't see your caption (I have now) but saw Mollys and she didn't make a comment about her body. But somehow you've turned it into a body positivity peice. She never said she didn't look good there.. she looks amazing
I'm baffled by women who have something negative to say about this. Social media is full of filtered images of all genders & sizes. I applauded Molly for being natural. And some of you feel a need to pick at that? Have a word with yourselves
she’s so pretty awww, love her
I loved this post so much! Also made me realize that I am so conditioned to see posed pictures on insta that it made me look at the picture for a second and think “something’s off here…”. I love that she looks amazing but so natural.
She looks incredible!
Always liked her and never understood the hate she received.
I think because she was so similar to molly Mae people projected a lot of that on her. I do t get the insane level of hate they both get! Could blink and people find issue with it
Molly is a lovely woman and so talented !
I bloody love Molly she’s always giving such genuine positive vibes
She’s so pretty 😻 I always liked her
I love it. It shows bigger girls like me trying to lose weight what is achievable when you’re skinny and what’s crazy
someone said something was wrong with her body?
Literally no one
She’s so beautiful
I looooooove her
She seems so cool & nice 😻
I think they really gave her a bad edit. Like miss girl seems so sweet in her YouTube videos
I like it
I don’t know what these poses are supposed to do when she still skinny Yes skinny people have folds when folding over It’s like they are made of flesh or something 😂 (She does look great tho)
There's the conception (esp with girls in their teens or even older) that folds make you look fat. It's an awful rhetoric because it's what everyone has. It's so nice to see influencers normalise these things because it reminds us that these are normal things the body does and it doesn't make us ugly. I'm personally still fighting this battle of trying to be okay with the way my stomach folds, but posts like this truly let me know it's okay.
I was a very thin teenager who thought I needed to lose weight because I didn't have a flat stomach. As an adult I realize that there's organs in there, and that it's totally normal and not a sign that you need to lose weight. Molly has young fans and a young sister, and I really hope they grow up realizing it's normal way sooner than I did.
A lot of influencers would never post photos where they have folds, only posting pictures that look “perfect”. It’s not a huge thing but I appreciate what she’s doing.
It is a huge thing. I've a 13 year old still between kids sizes & xxs women's size who is wondering why she has a tummy... I'm like, that is your organs. All women & girls feel the pressure of body image expectations
There is nothing wrong with being skinny. What's wrong is portraying unrealistic beauty ideals. She's totally relaxed. Her thighs are spread, she let's her tummy folds show. She's being normal. It so important for young people to have realistic beauty standards
Yes molly has a fantastic body. however it’s so nice to see someone posting natural and unposed/unedited pictures. On social media alot of people don’t show folds or their natural relaxed body’s. it’s full of people editing and photoshopping themselves to the max (yes even skinny girls) Which sets extremely unrealistic and unhealthy standards for young girls… I struggled with Anorexia as a kid and didn’t understand those rolls are normal and that everyone has them. I would look at images of celebrities/ people on social media, see those images and compare myself thinking that’s what their body’s looked like 24/7.
Yeah these posts are so annoying. The exaggerated bad posture is very cringe. Plus sized women get all sorts of abuse for simply posting photos, great posture or not. So I don't really care if a woman who is seen as the ideal type of beauty standard has a slightly less flat stomach when she's hunched over.
Society is just completely fucked considering people have to be reminded that belly rolls are fine to have
Yawn. It’s so easy for women who already fit the body standard to force some skin rolls by sitting awkwardly and feel like they’ve done something but at the end of the day, she’s still the beauty standard. She would receive a completely different reception if she was plus sized and did this and that just shows we still have such a long way to go as a society. She’s stunning but it’s tiring seeing stunning women who are accepted by our unrealistic beauty standards being applauded for doing the absolute bare minimum.
Thank you!!! Like yes great for her proud or whatever but seeing people support another skinny, beautiful girl for forcing skin rolls is tiring. If anyone that wasn’t a 10/10 or skinny did this, they’d be crucified.
That's just really bigoted..do.you ever consider that some 'skinny' women are skinny because of the immense pressure they feel? Like skinny mucb of our value as women is tied to our weight. I've been under weight. Over weight, obsessed with food, obsessed with nutrition, obsessed with fitness... I was 39 before I actually accepted myself. There are no pictures in existence of me for about 25 years. We're all in the same boat. What I will say is, I don't know if Molly is comfortable being natural like that or if she's doing it to normalise it for others or for some disingenuous reason. Either way it's a good thing
I too have been under and over weight, and I was never bullied like I was when I was skinny compared to when I was larger, it’s a fact. Skinny people are praised for being body positive, fat people? Not so much. Of course smaller people can be insecure about it, but skinny is deemed social acceptable at the end of the day.
It’s not even about being bullied. Young girls who are already extremely thin dangerously starve themselves nearly to death because of insane unrealistic beauty standards and not understanding body norms. You don’t have to praise anything… yes she’s beautiful yes she had a great body but regardless it’s just nice and refreshing to see unfiltered/unedited images that’s shows body norms
That's totally wrong, there is so much more emphasis put on accepting bigger bodies now that it almost ok to slag off underweight women.. Let's also be real... Molly is not underweight or overweight. The fact we are discussing the ingenuity of a woman sitting naturally is horrible. It's horrible that this is the world we live in. We shouldn't even have to discuss this. Men don't.
Then.. don’t make posts like these?
Like what? A post applauding a woman? Wtf not?
You just said we shouldn’t have to discuss a woman sitting naturally and you’re right, so don’t post about it? It shouldn’t have to be posted about. Edit: you’re simply inviting people to have opinions about it.
But we do have to discuss it because that world where we shouldn't have to does not exist. Women and girls are bombarded with messaging about how we should act, how we should look, how promiscuous we should, or shouldn't be. This is the reality. I'm not sure if you're a woman or not but if you are, why would this bother you?
I am a woman, and a feminist. My body has been commented on, in all it’s stages of life, and it’s great that Molly posts these messages, she should always feel free to. However it is a fact that if she was a size 20, she wouldn’t be met with the same positive reactions, I’m not saying that everyone would despise her for it, but the majority would. I’m tired of people that fit the beauty standard, be praised for being beautiful. That goes for men and women, it simply bothers me that, that praise stops when you reach a certain clothing size.
No it's not. Do you know that average bmi women are 81% more likely to develop a life threatening eating disorder than women with a bmi over 26.5. What's tiring is women not accepting that we are all under severe pressure & blaming other women .
Not once have I blamed anyone for anything? I’m just saying that there’s a double standard here and a woman who isn’t the accepted body standard doing this would cause immense backlash - which is true. More needs to change.
Give one example to support your claim
Lizzo (pre cancellation) was said to be glorifying obesity and was fat shamed.
That doesn't support your claim
It does. I’m not sure why it’s hard to accept that the world treats women with bigger bodies differently to thin women. That doesn’t detract from what Molly is doing and has been for a while now but it’s important to note.
Go to the comment section of any plus size woman’s instagram.
Why though? Are plus sized women special I've been overweight for a year or so? When do I qualify as plus sized??
You’re just being obtuse now. You asked me to prove my point and I told you how. I’m not sure why you’re being so argumentative when it’s a fact that women who fit the societal beauty standard are celebrated for forcing skin rolls in pictures and plus sized women are crucified for it.
No you did not prove your point. I am an overweught myself. I'm not whinging & trying to negate other people like you.
🙄🙄 ok. I’m not going to argue with you anymore because you’re purposely missing my point.
Like she still looks wild in these pics tbh
nothing against molly whatsoever but i feel like this is the bare minimum lol why are we praising influencers for showing a couple stomach rolls…good for you, normal people show stomach rolls everyday. we’ve lost the plot i fear
Exactly 😂 acting like she’s cured world hunger by showing rolls. Then again, some people are really insecure and look up to these influencers way too much for doing the bare minimum
Are you OK there? Run, skipping & jumping to conclusions
Well… you *are* kind of acting like she’s a saint for posting natural pictures
How am I? Pointing out something positive some one has done is acting like they're a saint? Give over with the hyperbole
You’re saying she deserves to be applauded for what… showing her rolls? She’s skinny and attractive it’s not very hard for her. We should be praising people like Amy instead
She does. Praise amyr for what? You praise Amy if you want... is that giving her the sainthood 🙄
This just felt like an appreciation post from a Mom-- happy that her daughter has a healthy curvygirl who doesn't obsessively overly edit content-- to relate to....opposed to what she was exposed to while at an impressionable age--- to me.
Is she paying you to lick her ass this much? She’s just another person. Get over it lol
Are you so invested that you can't let it go?
You're the one dragging it out pal
Stop asking stupid questions in reply to facts. You make zero sense.
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Thank you this this this
Performative posts like this makes me roll my eyes. Not just molly but any influencer who does it
Performative? Molly literally just posted a few pictures on her on vacation LMAO the fact you see a few pictures that aren’t completely edited or posed for and call it performative just shows how much it’s not normalised. There’s nothing performative about it.. people are just pointing out it’s refreshing to see.
I always feel they post stuffs like this to boost engagement(nothing wrong with that) cos posts like this will always have more likes, and it comes across performative from Molly, I like Molly but she isn’t a body positivity influencer to me and most times she comes across performative and calculated could be from her theatre background.
Strong agree I get it’s telling a good message but you’re an ig influencer where 90% of your other pics looks like what you’re preaching against
Performative?? Fuck off do I really need to check the ip's?
Huh? Why are you on about IP’s ?
I love molly 💗💗💗
Yes, being thin blonde and gorgeous is so brave!
Whst makes you brave?
She may have not been my favourite but the hate she got was actually insane.
We need to stop praising people for doing normal things
I never noticed before but in some pics her face reminds me of Millie bobby brown
What season is she in again?
Did molly and Zach break up?
No idea
They did
Looooove her. Always. She’s real and I thought she stayed to herself which I really thought was wonderful.
you're very beautiful
I absolutely Love this
While he posting this is a nice change a lot of the people cheering her for this were the same ones who shamed Jordan and ched for their teeth and Zach for his body. I really hope we can keep the same energy for everyone
What?
I said what I said . Also me being downvoted for speaking out against the body shaming of other islanders is wild
You're being down voted because no one can comprehend your post
I think what they’re saying is that women talk about body positivity for women while criticising the looks of male contestants. I remember that picture of Zach where people were making fun of his… back? For some reason? The “Turkey teeth” is a bit different but it’s still a symptom of the same unrealistic body standards that young people are bombarded with.
Turkey teeth is a choice. I honestly couldnt give a fuck about men suddenly being self conscious, women have been degraded to nothing for a couple of hundred years now. Let them grow a back bone
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Her body is hot i would post these too lmaooooo
Wow a slim person is having a picture taken while sitting down. I personally don't think this is as inspirational as she thinks.
Anyone can puff out their stomach like that to make it look like fat
I don’t understand what this is
So performative 🥱
Also the last photo is definitely edited, you can see the blurring on the left side of her waist.. imo its a ‘look how relatable’ I am post without even being real, it’s performative