Shape magazine picture update - Brooke bikini pic WILL now be featured!

You may have read my most recent blog post about slimmer Brooke Birmingham who after an incredible weight loss, was asked by Shape magazine to submit an after picture to feature in their magazine as part of her weight loss success story. She sent in this picture....

and was deeply offended when Shape magazine rejected it asking her to "submit a picture with a shirt on". Brooke refused, explaining that she would only appear in the magazine if the picture she submitted was used as she didn't feel like she should cover up and feel ashamed of her body after losing so much weight. 

After her picture and story went viral, Shape unsurprisingly had a change of heart. Editor Bahar Takhtehchian described the incident as a "misunderstanding". 

Hmm, somehow I think that if there hadn't have been such an uproar by the outraged public, then the editor ( a woman herself!) would have just went back to rejecting similar pictures of women showing their amazing achievements and REAL bodies. 

Brooke hasn't been airbrushed, she is a real woman and she is a great role model for all those women out there who are feeling less than "perfect" when comparing themselves to models in magazines. If I were Brooke, I would expect a BIG apology from Shape!

Brooke before and after pictures - an inspiration! 

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