When this photographer shared an image of nude mum’s breastfeeding their babies on Facebook, they didn’t censor her. We did.
Jade Beall is passionate about photographing and celebrating bodies of diversity. Particularly, the beautiful and very real bodies of postpartum mothers.
The mother of one regularly shares un-photoshopped images of mum’s posing nude with their newborns on Facebook. Often they’re breastfeeding, but Jade always abides by the site’s rules and censors the nipples.
Except this time she didn’t.
So when Jade posted the below image and forgot to blur out ONE of the nipples, someone reported her to Facebook.
The post had received plenty of positive feedback with over 3,000 shares and 9,000 likes but it also included cruel comments and was eventually reported.
No stranger to being banned by the social media site, Jade acted quickly by removing the image and replaced it with the offending nipple blurred out.
Read more:What took this star so long to #FreeTheNipple?
Following the incident she said it wasn’t Facebook’s fault for what transpired, but rather the public’s discomfort with women celebrating imperfect bodies.
“When we see a woman with the untypical body type feeling empowered and vulnerable to pose for an artist, it’s like somehow I break the rules of what is acceptable for how much skin a woman ‘should’ show,” the photographer told The Huffington Post.