This Woman Created The #SaggyBoobsMatter Movement And People Are Here For It
Chidera Eggerue
Chidera Eggerue   23  used to resent her drooping breasts and dreamed of the day she could get a boob job. Now she is encouraging women to love their bosom buddies â no matter the size or sag.
 Chidera Eggerue  has learned to love her body â saggy boobs and all â and now she wants to help others to do the same. The 23-year-old award-winning British blogger  better known as the Slumflower  is the driving force behind Saggy Boobs Matter  an online movement that challenges unrealistic expectations of what breasts should look like. âA lack of representation of saggy-looking boobs when I used to go bra shopping in M&S [as a young teenager] made me realise that something is wrong with the way the world views womenâs bodies â  Eggerue  told BuzzFeed News.
âThe packaging would always have a picture of a white woman with perky boobs  yet when Iâd try on the same bra in my correct size  my boobs just wouldnât look like the model pictured.â Pretty soon she had developed a complex and started to resent her boobs. âIt was so bad that at that age I had already decided that Iâd get a boob job once I got my first job at 18 â  Eggerue  said. âI reached 18 and didnât get a job  let alone a boob job  so I continued self-loathing until I reached 19 and became tired of feeling like a stranger in my own body. I decided Iâd had enough and made the choice to stop wearing a bra.â
Though  Eggerue  feels confident in  her  own skin   she  wanted to share  her  journey towards self-acceptance to contribute to the wider conversation about body positivity. Since July 2017   she  has been sharing pictures of  herself  without a bra  with captions that are defiant and inspirational. âFast-forward to 23: Iâve now reached a position of feeling comfortable in my body  but I wanted other women to feel like this  so I had to start the conversation by using my own body as an example â  she  said.
âThrough creating #SaggyBoobsMatter  I have been able to help women articulate their own body image hangups â especially slim women who donât really know where they stand in the body positivity movement.â  Eggerue  sees the shaming of saggy boobs as a vicious cycle: âSaggy boobs are underrepresented. Being underrepresented makes you feel alien to society. This fosters insecurities in people who donât have the mental strength to see value in themselves beyond other peopleâs standards.â  Her  passion  however  does come with a price. As  her  tweets and Instagram started to go viral   she  came under immense scrutiny not only from those who thought Saggy Boobs Matter was a bit of a joke  but also from some who made disparaging remarks about  her  natural assets and ordered  her  to put a bra on. âOverall  I think the movement has been received with a lot of sarcasm and insults from men and a few confused women  which doesnât surprise me â  Eggerue  said. âThis concerns me a lot because other women who look like me are seeing some of the horrible responses to this movement and are now probably feeling more insecure about their bodies when they see the vitriol I receive for showing up boldly and proudly. âMost of the responses have been horrible and disappointing  but Iâve learnt to not take them so personally. Men are socialised to see women as vaginas that think  sometimes. Because of this  womenâs bodies are picked apart as if we only exist to satisfy.
The meme was shared by Nigerian music producer Don Jazzy  one of the biggest names in Afrobeats  to his 3 million followers. âIt was quite hurtful to see that a stranger had gone to my page  stolen a photo of me that I took on my birthday  and thought it would be a good idea to turn it into a meme comparing women to phone battery life â she said. âMy photo was compared to a dying phone battery  meaning that I was seen as unattractive. What was more hurtful was seeing the meme shared by a famous Nigerian musician with a very large audience  so the comments were full of strangers laughing at my body.â When she expressed her disappointment about the meme  the abuse started.  Eggerue  was called an attention-seeker and told to get over  it  â that  it  wasn't a big deal. âNo matter how much you love yourself  randomly seeing strangers laugh at your body is not a nice feeling at all â  Eggerue  said. âCyberbullying does not stop being cyberbullying just because a person is popular/famous.â Don Jazzy later apologised and deleted his post  but it made  Eggerue  more determined to spread her message. She wants women to know that âyou were made with intention and your body is not a mistakeâ.
âBy force  we will all have to learn that the only way to normalise something is to see it repeatedly. So if you have an issue with saggy boobs  you have to ask yourself why a personâs body offends you â she added. âFor the women who look like me: Your saggy boobs matter. And from now until you die  whatâs going to matter  ultimately  is your character. Sometimes people are scared of what they havenât been taught to accept. We still have to exist loudly  though.â  Eggerue  said that  she 's been receiving messages from women from around the world telling  her  that  her  campaign has helped them.
 Eggerue  said  it  has been âan overwhelming experience receiving so many lovely and deeply personal messages from women who have found comfort in this movementâ.
[TGT] used to resent  [TGT]  drooping breasts and dreamed of the day  [TGT]  could get a boob job. Now  [TGT]  is encouraging women to love their bosom buddies â no matter the size or sag.
  [TGT] has learned to love  [TGT]  body â saggy boobs and all â and now  [TGT]  wants to help others to do the same. The 23-year-old award-winning British blogger  better known as the Slumflower  is the driving force behind Saggy Boobs Matter  an online movement that challenges unrealistic expectations of what breasts should look like. âA lack of representation of saggy-looking boobs when I used to go bra shopping in M&S [as a young teenager] made me realise that something is wrong with the way the world views womenâs bodies â   [TGT] told BuzzFeed News.
âThe packaging would always have a picture of a white woman with perky boobs  yet when Iâd try on the same bra in my correct size  my boobs just wouldnât look like the model pictured.â Pretty soon she had developed a complex and started to resent her boobs. âIt was so bad that at that age I had already decided that Iâd get a boob job once I got my first job at 18 â   [TGT] said. âI reached 18 and didnât get a job  let alone a boob job  so I continued self-loathing until I reached 19 and became tired of feeling like a stranger in my own body. I decided Iâd had enough and made the choice to stop wearing a bra.â
Though   [TGT]   feels confident in   [TGT]   own skin    [TGT]   wanted to share   [TGT]   journey towards self-acceptance to contribute to the wider conversation about body positivity. Since July 2017    [TGT]   has been sharing pictures of   [TGT]   without a bra  with captions that are defiant and inspirational. âFast-forward to 23: Iâve now reached a position of feeling comfortable in my body  but I wanted other women to feel like this  so I had to start the conversation by using my own body as an example â  she  said.
âThrough creating #SaggyBoobsMatter  I have been able to help women articulate their own body image hangups â especially slim women who donât really know where they stand in the body positivity movement.â   [TGT] sees the shaming of saggy boobs as a vicious cycle: âSaggy boobs are underrepresented. Being underrepresented makes you feel alien to society. This fosters insecurities in people who donât have the mental strength to see value in themselves beyond other peopleâs standards.â  Her  passion  however  does come with a price. As  her  tweets and Instagram started to go viral   she  came under immense scrutiny not only from those who thought Saggy Boobs Matter was a bit of a joke  but also from some who made disparaging remarks about  her  natural assets and ordered  her  to put a bra on. âOverall  I think the movement has been received with a lot of sarcasm and insults from men and a few confused women  which doesnât surprise me â   [TGT] said. âThis concerns me a lot because other women who look like  [TGT]  are seeing some of the horrible responses to this movement and are now probably feeling more insecure about their bodies when they see the vitriol I receive for showing up boldly and proudly. âMost of the responses have been horrible and disappointing  but Iâve learnt to not take them so personally. Men are socialised to see women as vaginas that think  sometimes. Because of this  womenâs bodies are picked apart as if we only exist to satisfy.
The meme was shared by Nigerian music producer Don Jazzy  one of the biggest names in Afrobeats  to his 3 million followers. âIt was quite hurtful to see that a stranger had gone to my page  stolen a photo of me that I took on my birthday  and thought it would be a good idea to turn it into a meme comparing women to phone battery life â she said. âMy photo was compared to a dying phone battery  meaning that I was seen as unattractive. What was more hurtful was seeing the meme shared by a famous Nigerian musician with a very large audience  so the comments were full of strangers laughing at my body.â When she expressed her disappointment about the meme  the abuse started.  Eggerue  was called an attention-seeker and told to get over  it  â that  it  wasn't a big deal. âNo matter how much you love yourself  randomly seeing strangers laugh at your body is not a nice feeling at all â  Eggerue  said. âCyberbullying does not stop being cyberbullying just because a person is popular/famous.â Don Jazzy later apologised and deleted his post  but it made  Eggerue  more determined to spread her message. She wants women to know that âyou were made with intention and your body is not a mistakeâ.
âBy force  we will all have to learn that the only way to normalise something is to see it repeatedly. So if you have an issue with saggy boobs  you have to ask yourself why a personâs body offends you â she added. âFor the women who look like me: Your saggy boobs matter. And from now until you die  whatâs going to matter  ultimately  is your character. Sometimes people are scared of what they havenât been taught to accept. We still have to exist loudly  though.â  Eggerue  said that  she 's been receiving messages from women from around the world telling  her  that  her  campaign has helped them.
 Eggerue  said  it  has been âan overwhelming experience receiving so many lovely and deeply personal messages from women who have found comfort in this movementâ.