A 40-YEAR-OLD woman has shared how her body-positive attitude has developed with age.
The TikTok user showed love for both her post-partum figure and her wrinkles.
In her video, Jolene Mendez (@jolenemendez) embraced her appearance, blemishes and all.
Filming herself in the mirror, she explained: “This is 40 and learning to love the skin I’m in.”
Jolene, who describes herself as a “creator of content and confidence,” revealed her love for “all [the] things that are a part of my story.”
This included “blemishes, age spots, and wrinkles,” which she called “all beautiful things.”
The mother-of-four zoomed in to give viewers a close-up look at her glowing complexion.
In a second clip, Jolene used her platform to encourage her followers to “be proud of your mom bod.”
She backed away from the camera to give her audience a full-length view of her figure.
The Kansas City-based creator posed in a black zip-up exercise cami top and colorful tie-dye leggings.
“Reminder of what a 220-pound mom bod looks like,” she told her followers as she pulled down her waistband to show off her stomach.
She raised her hands above her head and did a belly dance as she turned in a circle.
Jolene stopped with her back to the camera and flexed her biceps for her audience.
Her followers took to the comments sections of both videos to share their support for her self-love.
“She is inspiring me every time I see her, I love you,” wrote one TikTok user.
Another impressed viewer pointed out that “beauty doesn’t have [a] size.”
“I just see a mom that is gorgeous,” commented a third person.
