Body positivity still remains a faraway dream for many women as they are still conscious about their weight, size, and colour. However, this 63-year-old woman on social media is spreading the body positivity message through her photos in a bikini.
As women start aging, they start losing confidence in their appearance. They start believing what society tells them about older women not being attractive or desirable. It tells them to stop focusing on ways to keep themselves fit and beautiful as they no longer have a reason to get dressed up. Exposing skin becomes a dreary task as they are conscious about their wrinkles and body muscles. However, age should never define the life you live and the way you maintain yourself or dress, exactly what Instagram user Robin is trying to convey through her posts.
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63-Year-Old Woman Wears Bikini
Robin often shares body positivity and motivational videos for older women to embrace themselves with all their flaws and do what they feel like doing without getting restricted by their age. The 63-year-old believes in keeping her body fit through exercise and not shying away from wearing clothes like a bikini just because she is in her 60s. She has scars and wrinkles but she doesn't hide them and never hesitates in wearing what she wants.
Robin embraces everything she has earned so far, whether experiences or scars or wrinkles. In one of her videos, she mentioned that she doesn't believe in the notion that women above 50 have no worth. She wears all types of clothes but not with the intention to look younger than her age. She constantly works out and motivates other women her age to do so as well.
Earlier, Indian-American writer Padma Lakshmi was featured in a bikini photoshoot and talked about body positivity. The 52-year-old told that she wanted to break stereotypes about women above 50 and said that she looks very different from when she was younger but she embraces this version of herself with all her flaws. That is the type of motivation that every woman needs.
Society does not get to tell women about their 'shelf life' or worthiness at any age. Women should love their bodies the way they are and maintain them the way they want. Nobody has the right to stop them from being fit, taking care of their skin, flaunting their flaws, wearing a bikini, or putting on heavy makeup.