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"    Post by Tanis Jex-Blake.   Tanis Jex-Blake was visiting an Alberta, Canada, beach with two of her five children and decided to sit out in a bathing suit for the first time in years. Almost immediately, she heard teenagers calling her &amp;quot;f*cking disgusting&amp;quot; and saw them point at her accusingly [via  Metro News]. Jex-Blake was furious (of course) and took her kids home. When she got there, she posted a photo of her bikini body to Facebook with the following message: This is an open letter to the 2 guys and 1 girl who decided to skip work today in Sherwood Park where they were building a house, but instead decided to come to Alberta Beach to relax in the sun, enjoy the water and some beers. I&amp;#039;m sorry if my first attempt at sun tanning in a bikini in public in 13 years &amp;quot;grossed you out&amp;quot;. I&amp;#039;m sorry that my stomach isn&amp;#039;t flat and tight. I&amp;#039;m sorry that my belly is covered in stretch marks. I&amp;#039;m NOT sorry that my body has housed, grown, protected, birthed and nurtured FIVE fabulous, healthy, intelligent and wonderful human beings. I&amp;#039;m sorry if my 33 year old, 125 lb body offended you so much that you felt that pointing, laughing, and pretending to kick me. But I&amp;#039;ll have you know that as I looked at your &amp;#039;perfect&amp;#039; young bodies, I could only think to myself &amp;quot;what great and amazing feat has YOUR body done?&amp;quot;. I&amp;#039;ll also have you know that I held my head high, unflinching as you mocked me, pretending that what you said and did had no effect on me; but I cried in the car on the drive home. Thanks for ruining my day. It&amp;#039;s people like you who make this world an ugly hateful place. I can&amp;#039;t help but feel sorry for the women who will one day bear your children and become &amp;quot;gross&amp;quot; in your eyes as their bodies change during the miraculous process of pregnancy. I can only hope that one day you&amp;#039;ll realize that my battle scars are something to be proud of, not ashamed of. Yes, yes, and yes to all of the above. The photo is currently going viral, and those teenagers should be sufficiently shamed. [From Cosmopolitan.com] Related:This 9-Year-Old Was Fat-Shamed by Her School for Weighing 66 PoundsDiet Company Uses Plus-Size Blogger&amp;#039;s Bikini Shot Without Permission10 Jaw-Dropping Photos of a Man Perfectly Recreating a Pregnancy Photo Shoot "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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