Opinion Today: A few words about my belly

It’s just a part of my body and doesn’t need to be remarked upon. 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Martin Sweers/Trunk Archive By Amelia Tait In the hours before a man mistook me for being pregnant, I ate one of the best ice creams of my life. It had a creamy pistachio center that was wrapped in black currant jam and covered in white chocolate, and it was my second ice cream of the day. I can’t recall exactly what popped into my head in the moments after the man asked if I was expecting while on vacation this September — mostly because all I heard and felt was humming. But I do recall, somewhere within the noise, that I thought about those two ice creams. And I didn’t allow myself to regret them for a second. Half a lifetime ago, I was a teenage girl suffering from anorexia, and today I refuse to ever return to that dark place. I couldn’t let a stranger’s comment affect how I felt about my body. But it did make me think about women’s bodies generally, and recall an idea I’ve pondered for years: that as a society, we seem to be suffering from mass “belly dysmorphia.” Not all round bellies are pregnant, and I’d wager that — if we include men in the equation — there are more round bellies in the world than there are pregnant women. Yet time and time again, the stomachs we see in the media are smooth, toned and flat. Because of this bias, entirely new generations inherit our neuroses, believing their perfectly normal stomachs to be abnormal and torturing themselves day and night as a result. 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