Woman's Own

WE LOVE OUR BODIES

It’s often criticised as a platform packed with unrealistic images, but there are a growing number of posts on Instagram promoting the reality of women’s bodies. Since 2017, photographer Sophie Mayanne has photographed 400 subjects and amassed 58,000 followers for @behindthescars. Here, we meet two women who posed for her inspirational project.

‘This is who I am’

Laura Lambert, 29, is a graphic designer and lives in Cheshire with her husband, Charlie, 29.

Waking from surgery, groggy and sore, I stared at the bandaged stump where my lower left leg had been. I’d been an active 25-year-old

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