“You’re not a goddess, I’m not a goddess?and we don’t have to be,” said Girls actress Jemima Kirke recently at a dinner in New York. “Postpartum is not a day, a week or even a year. It’s forever. And I can assure you, you’re all doing good enough.”
The actress and mom of two was a special guest at the launch of The Life After Birth Project, a travelling exhibit of real and raw postpartum photography from more than 250 women, including Amy Schumer, Ricki Lake, Jillian Harris, Christy Turlington and Kirke. The project was inspired by Knix founder and CEO Joanna Griffiths, who was struck by how damaging it was to have her social feed filled with images and messages about diets and workouts days after giving birth.  Surveying her clients, she discovered that more than half of them experienced postpartum depression and 76 per cent felt the pressure to ?bounce back? post birth. Griffiths teamed up with Brooklyn-based doula service Carriage House Birth and the Empowered Birth Project, an online initiative celebrating the post-birth experience, in an effort to change the message to postpartum moms. “You are perfect as you, you are supported, and you are seen.”
The exhibition will travel across North America this fall with one Canadian stop in Toronto from September 17 to 22.
Take a look at some of the images from the exhibit below:
1. Michaelle C. Solages, seen breastfeeding on the floor of the New York State...