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Former EastEnders star Melissa Suffield celebrated her “wobbly body” in an empowering unfiltered clip on social media.
The 30-year-old, who welcomed son River in 2020, regularly shares unedited snaps and clips on Instagram as she promotes the message of body positivity. And in her most recent post on Friday, Melissa uploaded a feel-good video of herself dancing around in her lingerie on her bed.
“13 seconds of a body wobbling, to remind you that a wobbly body is totally NORMAL. We spend so long picking ourselves apart, and it feels so *lonely*, we start to think we're the only ones who look a certain way,” the actress, who played Lucy Beale on EastEnders, wrote. “In fact, there's SO many other bodies like ours- we're actually pretty damn ordinary! So, this is 13 seconds to remind you just how normal your body is. And how WONDERFUL that is. What's your favourite wobbly bit? Let's hear 'em! And then let's CELEBRATE them.”
She danced in her lingerie to empower other women
Melissa proudly showed off her 'wobbly bits'Her followers were overjoyed with the candid post, and many took to the comments to share their own thoughts about their “wobbly” bodies. “This is excellent . Lets normalise that our body's can jiggle and still be hottttttt,” one wrote. “I don’t know a body that doesn’t jiggle like a Christmas bauble,” another joked. “There isn’t a single part of my body that doesn’t jiggle. Actually I tell a lie, my toes don’t, my jiggles remind me of the amazing process my body made to grow my 3 beautiful boys,” one fan added.
“Love this!!! absolutely how boring would it be if bodies didn’t wiggle?!”, another delighted fan commented. “We all have wobbly bits, and they are all fabulous,” one wrote, as many others left love heart emojis and thanks Melissa for encouraging them to love their bodies after having kids. “YOU ROCK and are absolute fire!!! You give people the needed oomph they need!!!”, another added.
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Last month, the actress said she had embraced her “real body” as she hit back at the pressure put on mums to “bounce back” to their pre-pregnancy figures, and was furious at the unnecessary stress the “culture” puts on exhausted mothers. “Want to know what makes me mad? Bounce back culture,” she fumed. “New mums already have a LOT of pressure. They're keeping this new ACTUAL person alive, learning how to do it, trying to heal from birth, being bombarded with ads for *the* dream product that they probably don't need, worried about why their baby isn't sleeping through yet because they saw a £500 course that promised them the solution- the LAST thing they need to be worrying about is bouncing back to their pre baby body.”