Ashley Graham, an icon of motherhood

It is not enough to say that the photo (you see above) with which Ashley Graham presented her twins to the world is beautiful. The photo is the icon of motherhood and of femininity. Taken by the father of the children, the producer and director of photography Justin Ervin, it is an intimate, emotional photo, pervaded by an almost animalistic sense of birth: she curled up, half-naked, with her two children in her womb, one nursing him, the other it fades him, almost as if he were a divinity, undoubtedly sacred in his role. Ashley chose to present this way Malachi and Roman, the two twins born on January 7, 2022the second birth of the model who became a mother two years ago of the baby Isaac Menelik John.

He writes (and has already collected 1.8 million likes): «Malachi and Roman, my kids were my greatest teachers and they reminded me that I can do difficult things. It wasn’t easy, but it’s worth it. I still can’t believe I have 3 children: I can’t wait to share my story about birth and post partum with all of you. “

He can’t wait, he points out, to tell us about birth and post partum, because Ashley is also the icon of body positivity, which in hindsight is nothing more than the reality of what is happening, without pretense, without filters. So here she is in the photos before giving birth with a belly full of stretch marks, and then on the sofa, with an exorbitant belly, she showed us the fatigue, the change of the body, but always with dignity and enormous beauty.

Ashley does with her example what no one can teach and she never remembers enough: she says that life, even in its best moments, is also hard work, dismantle the fake affectation of social media. There is a mother with her “puppies” on the sofa.