Cindy Crawford’s unwitting triumph for mothers everywhere — salon.com

It’s incredibly disappointing that one of the most encouraging, inspirational photos of a mother’s body was disseminated non-consensually. We won’t link to the photo of soon-to-be-49-year-old supermodel Cindy Crawford, because we don’t want to be part of the problem, however, I can tell you that it’s a beautiful bikini shot that shows Crawford looking lithe and fit, with a gorgeous swell of abdominal softness and a few stretch marks. I haven’t been so captivated by an image of the female body in years—not since a butt-naked Madonna hitchhiked down the road, a cigarette dangling from her lips, in her 1992 coffee-table book Sex. Cindy looks like a bronzed goddess at the height of her womanly power. That she doesn’t look “perfect” is what makes her look, well, perfect.

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