Just before the weekend, the former competitive swimmer and Olympic winner Lisbeth “Libby” Trickett from Australia shared a video that makes several parents see red.
In the clip, the 38-year-old deals with a comment her eight-year-old daughter is said to have received from a person close to the family.
– “Wow. It looks like you’ve lost weight. Do you have it? You look amazing!”, the mother of four recounts in the Instagram video.
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– We can do better
Trickett is obviously upset, and thinks people need to think more about how they refer to body and weight in general.
– My daughter is eight years old! We can do better than this – both when it comes to the way we talk to our children and how we talk about our own bodies. We have to get better at talking about our bodies in front of our children, but also when we talk about our own bodies to ourselves, she continues.
She believes this statement shows that the development is going in the wrong direction.
– We are creating a society where our value as human beings is determined by how thin we are. I will do everything in my power to protect my children from this, and love their bodies as they are. They are fantastic, she says.
The sports personality receives wide support in the comments section.
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– Oh no. This is not ok. We have to change the conversation, writes ei.
– This is terrible. I’m sorry your daughter was asked such a stupid question. We have to get better, writes another.
– Terrible
There are also several who express that they are not at all surprised by what the eight-year-old is said to have been exposed to.
Several tell of similar incidents that have affected their children and themselves.
– I was so upset the day my daughter came home and talked about her weight in a negative way, and that she was trying to cut down on food. She was only six or seven years old, writes one user.
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– I was at a wedding recently, ten weeks after I gave birth to my son. One of the guests offered to “hide my stomach” with his hand during the photo-taking, writes another.
Not the first time
This is not the first time the swimmer has contributed to the debate against an unhealthy body and weight focus.
And you Instagram posts from 2020 she used herself as an example to raise awareness about weight and self-esteem.
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– I weighed 102 kilos at the end of a pregnancy and 62 kilos when I qualified for my last Olympics. I am now 82 kilos and it has made me realize that it doesn’t matter. I don’t need to be a certain number on the scale to be the person I want to be, and those numbers don’t define how much I’m worth anyway, she wrote at the time.
Trickett retired as a professional swimmer in 2012, after winning his fourth and final Olympic gold in London.
– I know that I am a better person now than I was eight years ago, and it has nothing to do with my size and body shape, but all the experiences I have been through.
2024-02-26 20:06:09
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