What if we thought having a belly, not flat abs, was sexy?

Anef is Enuf linked a video on Facebook that damn near made me cry because we never see tummies be talked about, seen or celebrated in any way…and just two days ago I was on the train when a young teen girl got on and she had a short shirt on showing her tummy which had a tattoo of a sun around her belly button…her belly was not at all what you’d call fat and she was serene and confident…I’d never be able to do that though I can move mountains when I want to…I wondered why people considered that such an odd site and if only ours was a culture where tummies were to be desired, something every one lusted after…after all, I come from Azerbaijan, a culture where fat on women’s bodies was hoped for (mostly because it showed wealth of the family), so such a thing is possible.

And let’s not turn this into the usual health-ist ranting about how everyone is so worried about the obesity epidemic and how fat is a sign that we’ll just drop dead and die any second…let’s not get into that…imagine, just for a moment, how you’d feel if tummies were considered much sexier than a flat stomach…I know there are many of us that would hate our bodies a little less.