This topic is still difficult to broach.
Within the body-positive community, conversations around shapewear can still feel taboo. Even I, someone who's constantly and actively engaged in the community both in real life and online, find the topic tricky to bring up — and I'll occasionally wear some version of shapewear. But it's not like people aren't buying it: One report estimates that this market will reach a worth of $6.4 billion by 2024.
The Cleveland-based blogger says she began wearing shapewear at a young age, with the sole purpose of slimming down. Once she learned about fat acceptance and became part of the body-positive community, though, she made the choice to stop using it altogether."I completely stopped wearing it because the only purpose that I thought that it served was to look smaller," she says."As I learned to love my body, I didn't want to hide it, and it felt like that was a way of hiding it.
Though some in the community have been open to turning to shapewear as a wardrobe staple, it can be hard to separate these benefits from the long-standing idea that, if you're wearing it, you want to"fix" something about your body. "As a model, you're expected to have all the proper garments for any outfit they should choose to put on you," she explains."If you're changing in and out of a few outfits a day and you have your undergarments steady and solid, then you can change quickly without having to worry about any adjusting at all."
"This is what I want to do with my body," says Little Rock-based blogger Rochelle Johnson,"... so I still wear it, and I still consider myself to be body-positive."
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