Rihanna is Being Shamed for her Post-Baby Body and Literally WTF?

Rihanna is a music icon, a beauty mogul, a mom of three and a self-made billionaire…but she’s also a woman, which means no matter what she does or accomplishes, the world seems to think the most interesting thing about her is her body. And the world also seems to think that body is a thing they’re allowed to comment on publicly.

An account recently shared a photo of the singer at the airport carrying her son. It’s bad enough that someone snapped a photo of a mom in the wild just trying to get from point A to point B with her child in her arms. But what came next is just….blood boiling, at least to me. 

“I can see why people leave their partners after birth,” a commenter wrote. Seriously?!?! The woman had a baby five months ago, but that’s not even the point here. The point is that speaking about a woman — any woman — this way is just beyond ugly. 

Seriously, this is exhausting. Did we all just collectively forget that having a child is meant to change a woman’s body? Did we forget that even in the absence of pregnancy and childbirth, bodies change over time? Did we forget that people are going to look different at an airport as opposed to all done up and airbrushed in red carpet photos?  Did we forget that aging is a normal thing?

We have always held women to impossible standards, and people have always felt entitled to comment on women’s bodies and looks. But with the rise of Botox, fillers, plastic surgery, filtering photos, and the like, I feel we’ve created an even more unrealistic set of beauty and physical standards…and these comments are proof.

One commenter said it best: “She looks like a mom who is having a great time with her son. A father should see this as thr [sic] ultimate picture of beauty”.