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This Artist Transforms Stretch Marks into Body Positive Rainbow Art
"If I don't accept my stretch marks, I don't accept me."
Spanish artist Cinta Toro Cartró paints women's stretch marks rainbow to spread messages of body positivity and self-love.
"If I don't accept my stretch marks, I don't accept me," the 21-year-old Barcelona illustrator told BBC News. "I hated my stretch marks and when the years passed, I think it's stupid because they are in my body, in all of my life."
\u201cLa artista @zintetaart resalta la belleza y nos invita a sentirnos orgullosos de nuestros cuerpos y amarlos tal cual son \ud83d\udc9c\u201d— \ud835\udde0\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf8\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddf2\u2661\ud835\udde7\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfa (\u30df\u30eb\u30af\u30b7\u30a7\u30fc\u30af) (@\ud835\udde0\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf8\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddf2\u2661\ud835\udde7\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfa (\u30df\u30eb\u30af\u30b7\u30a7\u30fc\u30af)) 1500903019
Cartró believes it's important to accept and love all of your "flaws," and she paints women of different races, shapes, and sizes.
"Society makes you hate your body. You can work for love your body," she explained. "I think it's important to accept all of you."
\u201cI love this photo. Stretch marks are in different parts of our bodies. More self-love <3\u201d— zinteta (@zinteta) 1501600154
This isn't her only body positive art project. She has also worked on her version of the Free the Nipple campaign and a period piece with underwear titled "#manchoynomedoyasco," which translates to "I stain myself, and I'm not grossed out by it."
"Love yourself and believe in you," Cartró preaches. "Believe in all the things that form part of you."
Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!
Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!
