Is this body positivity? Is the question being asked on Instagram. Ghanaian born British model Enam Asiama wants to steal your soul with her beauty.
How cute is she!
Enam share the photo this morning on her Intagram page with the caption:
« How do you tell people about these stories of discrimination, but at the same time, positivity? Where it’s like, “Girl, I woke up today, and I’m just so thankful to be black. I woke up today, and I’m just so thankful that my fat ass could wake up and do something that inspires someone on the internet to love themselves.” A fat person can teach you to love yourself. Society tells me to hate myself, but yet I am the first person you think of in the morning & want to be or to show love to. »
Anam later highlighted a comment made by a troll under the photo and stated that the photo has become one of the most important images she has ever taken.
“This photo has become one of the most important images I have ever taken. Thankful for all of you out there you see me and see love and light, and see someone who inspires you and empowers you to just love yourself openly and wholeheartedly!”
Also in a long Instagram post, Anam made an unbelievable statement about her body:
last of the summer whines– this year, I fell in love with my body the most. I put on weight, I made a conscious effort to notice this and it made me feel normal again.
As I wanted this, since I have felt the most suffering with my mental health– so I was anxious and paranoid that I would lose weight because of it. But more than ever, I see myself again, as I stopped accepting the false romanticizing of my body by myself, false lovers and by those systems that control beauty standards for the white gaze only.
And in the words of one of my fave educators @ijeomaoluo “Once you start to see yourself, you cannot pretend anymore”. I’m MAD attractive, I deserve to be desired and with that I have a high presidency when it comes to ALL TYPES of love.
I love and value my body, myself because it is something to be valued and loved with great pride. I hope you take this message and reflect on it in your own lives and when it comes to individuals that look like me. Black fat queer love is revolutionary and I love the FUNK outta me! Been that bit*h still that Bit*h will forever be… say it with me… THAT BIT*H– thank you.
I was born and partly raised in Ghana, Anam told Refinery29, until I was 9 years old and we moved to Birmingham, England. I grew up in a Christian household, so a lot of the things that I saw in terms of beauty were about modesty and elegance. The culture in Ghana is that women have to look and act like women, and men have to act and be like men. I feel like that transcends globally.
