We have to embrace our new strength, our new body, our new pair of jeans.” And speaking of jeans, Scott actually donated much of her pre-baby clothing: “This is a new body. “I didn’t have a bounce back, but I don’t think that’s a good narrative for women,” she says.
Even as a fitness professional, she didn’t exercise until almost six months postpartum - not six weeks, when she was technically cleared to do so. There’s no end point where you just go ‘That’s it, I’m confident.'”įor her part in building body confidence and combating “bounce back” culture, Scott decided to be very open about her postpartum experience with her first daughter. And that’s beautiful.” She wants women to realize that confidence is a journey, not a destination: “It’s such a bumpy, high, low, rocky journey. “This is my body, it’s okay for what it is right now. “It’s all about rewiring the way that we think about things and giving ourselves grace and knowing that a bad day is fine and not loving every inch of your body is fine,” she says. “The more we hate ourselves, the more that we find problems with ourselves, the more that these big conglomerates make money,” she points out.īut if you’re like many women, and struggle with body positivity and acceptance, McGrady would like to remind us that it’s okay to just be neutral. “Your body was the house for the most wonderful thing in your world.” She also urges us to remember to see this toxic culture for what it is: a money-maker, pure and simple. “Social media throws this ‘bounce back’ culture to us, which is so toxic in so many ways - and we don’t really take time to look at what our bodies have done for us,” McGrady adds. “Coming from the fitness industry, there was a lot of pressure put on me that were meant to sound like compliments: ‘Oh, you’re in fitness, you’ll have a small bump and you’ll bounce back right away.’ And I heard it from everybody,” says Scott. McGrady and Scott are both proud to play a role in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’s celebration of the body in all its forms, and are both outspoken about the unrealistic (and often unsafe) expectation on women to “bounce back” after pregnancy. I have to do things that may scare me a little bit - not only for me, but for other mamas out there, and for my son.” “My body may not look like it did last year or the year before, but this is the body that I have now, and I have to appreciate that. “I just did the most spectacular thing of my life,” she said. “At first I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, no way, this is too soon, I’m not ready,'” McGrady, mom to 11-month-old Hudson, tells SheKnows. But then, she had an epiphany. Since then, she has posed for the issue multiple times - but this year felt special to McGrady, because she was barely six months postpartum at the time of the shoot, a prospect she admits felt a little nerve-wracking. Model Hunter McGrady, who also posed for this year’s issue, knows a thing or two about being outside the outdated, “traditional” beauty standards in 2017, the plus-sized model and body image activist was billed as the curviest SI swimsuit model ever. “They have really shifted the narrative of what beauty means to women.” “The thing about Sports Illustrated is that they celebrate beauty in all different ways,” Scott told SheKnows. So it should come as no surprise that this year’s issue is celebrating pregnant and postpartum bodies, including Kelly Hughes, the first model featured to have a C-section scar. Last year alone, its three separate covers featured Naomi Osaka as the first Black female athlete, Megan Thee Stallion as the first rapper, and Leyna Bloom as the first transgender cover model. In the past few years, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue has made groundbreaking strides in inclusivity. With a team of women at the swimsuit issue’s helm, gone are the narrow and exclusive beauty standards once featured in its pages. Credit: Derek Kettela / Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated
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