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TikTok Mom Roasts Herself After Hilarious Years-Long Mess-Up With Her Middle Child

TikTok mom Emily Vondy, is nothing if not honest about the struggles of motherhood. One of Vondy's most classic and popular maternal mishap tales of late had even me saying, "Whew, at least I've never done that!"

WARNING: Toddler Suffers 2nd-Degree Burns After Mom Fills Kiddie Pool Up With Garden Hose

“We got a ton of tweets back from people saying ‘I never thought about that,’ and that’s why we do it.”

School Forces Student to Take Jesus Out of Graduation Speech, Plan Gloriously Backfires When She Drops This Line

“I’ve always been a rule follower. When they said not to chew gum, I didn’t chew gum. When they said not to use your cellphone, I didn’t use my cellphone. But today, in the spirit of defying expectations, and for perhaps the last time at this podium, I say..."

The Day My Husband Told Me “This Isn’t the Body I Fell in Love With”

From the countless magazine covers plastered with waif models to web ads oozing with the next revolutionary weight-loss hack, it’s hard to get away from the cultural narrative that screams “skinny is BETTER” especially when you are dealing with a postpartum body.

Reportedly, “a total of 75 percent of all American women endorse some unhealthy thoughts, feelings or behaviors related to food or their bodies”…and those are just the ones who admitted to it in a survey.

If we’re being honest with ourselves, we’ve ALL probably had those thoughts at some point in our lives.

In the era of Photoshopped thighs and girls contracting every-eating-disorder-under-the-sun, it’s become quite the trend to champion body-positive thoughts and self-acceptance through social media.

We’ve ALL seen the memes.

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“I’m so Flaw-some”…

And “Imperfection is beauty”…

Those quotes look all adorable when packaged in their Pinterest-perfect graphics, but to what degree do we actually believe them?

Particularly after having children, it’s not uncommon for a woman’s body confidence to plummet to an all-time low.

Your tight abs are replaced with post-baby flab and your once supple skin now bears the marks of tiger-striped stretch marks.

How’s that for feeling attractive?… Particularly when it comes to pleasing the man who fell in love with the once-upon-a-Barbie-bod version of you.

Well for Mum on the Run, Laura Mazza, that’s something she’s finally starting to be at peace with after warring for years over her fading looks. But what’s most beautiful is her husband’s response to her insecurities about “the body he didn’t fall in love with.”

Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey is an editor at Outreach. She’s passionate about fear fighting, freedom writing, and the pursuit of excellence in the name of crucifying perfectionism. Glitter is her favorite color, 2nd only to pink, and 3rd only to pink glitter.

TikTok Mom Roasts Herself After Hilarious Years-Long Mess-Up With Her Middle Child

TikTok mom Emily Vondy, is nothing if not honest about the struggles of motherhood. One of Vondy's most classic and popular maternal mishap tales of late had even me saying, "Whew, at least I've never done that!"

WARNING: Toddler Suffers 2nd-Degree Burns After Mom Fills Kiddie Pool Up With Garden Hose

“We got a ton of tweets back from people saying ‘I never thought about that,’ and that’s why we do it.”

School Forces Student to Take Jesus Out of Graduation Speech, Plan Gloriously Backfires When She Drops This Line

“I’ve always been a rule follower. When they said not to chew gum, I didn’t chew gum. When they said not to use your cellphone, I didn’t use my cellphone. But today, in the spirit of defying expectations, and for perhaps the last time at this podium, I say..."