Recently, pictures of Mohamed Salah and his family circulated on social media. While the celebrations were hospitable and plenty, people noticed his wife’s “glow up.” Many people started commenting on her appearance, and others pinned this back to her weight loss.
Though social media is a brutal place, we see way worse each passing day. It was noticeable how everyone on social media started incorporating her body in their comments; as if it was the norm. Not to mention the amusing remarks about her clothes. Classic.
We tried looking for these people’s rights to talk about a woman’s body, but we couldn’t find any. It was also senseless how they linked a “glow-up” to weight loss, throwing all the body positivity efforts to waste. But the real question here is: Why are women’s bodies still part of the conversation?
The Footballer’s wife is neither the first nor the last woman whose body and wardrobe choices are casually thrown in online conversations like it’s a public right. It is the audacity that also makes it way worse. And we’ve seen this happen with female celebrities from Sherin Abdelwahab to Yasmine Sabri, Dina El-Sherbiny, and many more while linking their bodies to their recent life events with all the brutality in the world.
However, as the world is changing and evolving from certain mindsets every day, we have faith that this narrative will change with women’s bodies being excluded from meaningless and sick conversations sooner or later. We at least hope so!
