bravery - "having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty". a definition which absolutely does not describe babs dragging herself out of bed and posing in a bleeping dress.
the sole time i remember any of the babettes complimenting babs on her supposed "bravery" was the time she made a huge deal about how she'd "sized up" and bought an item of clothing that actually fit her, thus was larger than a size 18 - but it had taken her a while to come to terms with having the number 20 printed into the label that she wrote an entire post dedicated to "admitting" she'd bought clothes larger than a size 18, as though it was a shameful secret - essentially begging the babettes for validation and reassurance - because she's so confident in her size and appearance!
babs is so body confident, she simply wakes up and puts a dress on - but not without taking a photo of herself in it, and ensuring she share it to her stories with a specific mention that she's wearing a size 18, because she's so confident that she defines herself by her clothes size, and needs daily compliments on her outfit and appearance to feel "brave" enough to wear it.
she's so body confident that she regularly reminds the babettes that she's - in her own words - at the "smallest end" of plus sized, and would rather lie about how she "invented" a trend of buying jackets that are too small to do up rather than simply buying jackets that actually fit her #NOTasize18 body.
she's so body confident that she goes out of her way to purposefully conceal her gunt because she's so insecure about it, and actively hands out tips, encouraging the babettes to do the same - despite labbeling herself as a body confidence role model, thus accepting of her body, regardless of size and shape.
she's so body confident that she feels threatened by anyone who is thinner than her, or whose figure/body shape is not a mirror image of her own - thus she openly criticises and body shames other women because they don't have prominent stomachs, yet dare to work as plus sized models - because their images don't perfectly reflect babs' unhealthy, grellow bulk.
she's so body confident that she write an entire post dedicated to how she never uses filters or edits photos of herself because she wants to product her daughter from growing up with unrealistic beauty ideals reinforced by filtered photos shared on social media, yet regularly uses filters which alter her appearance, and prioritises contorting her body into ridiculous poses to look as small as possible in photographs, while demanding her husband take every photo from as high an angle as possible, without a single concern as to how her attitude and insecurity towards her body will impact their own self esteem and self worth, the importance they place on their clothes size and the potential that they could develop body image issues as they grow up.
she's is so body confident she can't get through a single day without reminding the world how body confident she truly is!
she's specifically labelled herself as not being "brave" in the caption because she knows damn well that the babettes will jump to contradict her, and flood their kween with reassurance about how brave she is and how much she inspires them with her brightly-coloured #size18style, which is so different and daring to any outfit that they ever see any woman over the age of forty being "brave" enough to wear.
and are the babettes so deluded that they think babs with her face covered in layers of caked-on clown make-up is her natural look!
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