Playboy model Dani Mathers caused outrage online last week when she photographed a naked woman in a gym locker room, popped it online and captioned it with unflattering comments about the woman’s body.  

 

The reaction was so negative that the move may have just cost Dani her career.

 

But a career dip for one model won’t eradicate the body-shaming culture we’re currently living in, as mum Christine Blackmon knows.

 

So the mum-of-two decided to do something about it.

 

She posted a pre-workout photo of herself, pretty much nude, on her Facebook page, Delicate Flower.  

 

While the photo was taken by her husband just for fun, Dani was so horrified by the Playmate’s actions that she decided to share it with the world.

 

Attached to the post was an open letter to Dani Mathers, and it’s pretty awesome.  

 

 

Describing herself as ‘veteran, widow, mom, newly wed, step mom, professional, bad ass and delicate flower,’ Christine began the letter saying “So, #DaniMathers, I’d like to introduce you to my 5’10, 194lb, lumpy, bumpy glory.”

 

Then she gave us the background story of her own photo, saying she had begged her husband to delete the snap.

 

“I hated it,” wrote Dani, who has two young daughters. “All I saw was lumps and bumps. He simply smiled and softly said ‘I think it’s beautiful.’”

 

So she let him keep it, touched by the fact that he saw her body’s beauty, regardless of its imperfections.

 

“Here’s the deal,” she continued. “You may have been a Playboy model but not all of us work out to be ‘hot’, some of us work out simply to honour the bodies we are given.”

 

“That’s all that woman was trying to do and you violated her. Shame on you. I bet I could 100s of women to post their beautiful bodies and regardless of size, shape or colour, they will ALL be more beautiful than the ugliness you showed in that post.”

 

 

Christine did manage to get 100s of women to post snaps of their bodies online, as her post when viral within an hour, amassing a whopping 20,000 views to date. 

 

Commenter Judy Boothe wrote: “Whenever I get down on myself, my kids tell me I'm beautiful and their opinions are the only ones that matter to me. Would I like to be thinner? Yeah, but I am happy with who I am. You rock Delicate Flower!”

 

Meanwhile, Tenesa Patton wrote: “5ft 4, 160lbs, 2 kids and a kidney transplant have left their share of scars and stretch marks, but I refuse to let a number on the scale define me.”

 

"We shame ourselves enough, we don’t need Playboy models shaming us,” Christine told Today, adding that she’s training for a half-marathon after recovering from knee surgery.

 

“For every day that I’m like ‘My body birthed life and did this and did that,’ there’s another day that I’m in tears on the floor of a dressing room,” she said. “But I think the key is that…the women around us should be the ones rallying if we’re not strong.”

 

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