Dear tabloids: posting a photo on Instagram does not equate to ‘flaunting’ a ‘body transformation’.
There’s nothing quite like some unsolicited tabloid commentary about a woman’s body to get you raging in the morning, but unfortunately, it’s hardly a rare occurrence., whose decision to upload a simple post-workout selfie to her Instagram stories has attracted a variety of unnecessary headlines.
The picture – which saw the actor wearing a black Nike sports bra and Adidas leggings – was accompanied by the comment: “If I ever get up to exercise before work, I do feel like I deserve a special medal and that is just the truth.”You’d think something so simple would be fairly unnewsworthy – after all, it was just a funny in-the-moment snap Coughlan shared with her followers.
Suddenly, Coughlan’s post-workout selfie was an opportunity to “flaunt her body transformation” and “stun fans” with her “trim new look”, despite the original post referencing nothing to do with any weight loss or a bid to “transform” her body. Besides being completely unnecessary, can we not just let a woman work out in peace? The framing of Coughlan’s selfie as a ‘body transformation’ is particularly problematic, especially when combined with the ‘side-by-side’ images some tabloids used to compare her ‘new body’ to how she looked in the past.
They also assume that Coughlan’s decision to work out is purely motivated by a desire to ‘transform’ her look – despite the fact that exercise offers a myriad of benefits completely unrelated to weight loss.
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