A mother of three from Sacramento responds to hate mails and messages online after posting a photo of her fit body on Facebook, according to ABC Local.
Maria Kang, 32, said she posted the picture of herself wearing a bikini along with her three children, then three and two years old and an eight-month old baby to inspire other mothers to get in shape and feel confident about their bodies. Her photo quickly went viral garnering over 20,000 comments on the social networking site.
Some of the comments were positive while other moms said that her photo is discouraging them and made them feel bad about their own bodies. Kang stresses that "I wanted to say, I know you think you don't have time if you have kids. But if I can do it, you can do it too."
Kang is a former pageant queen and fitness competitor who founded the nonprofit Fitness Without Borders in 2007, according to Yahoo.
Just recently, Kang re-posted the photo with the caption "non-apology" and includes a brief letter: "I never called you fat, I never said that you were a bad mother, I never said what's your excuse for not looking like me, I never said anything like that. I just came out and said you need to own the thoughts you put in your own head because I didn't put it there, you did," she said. Kang is a former beauty pageant queen and a recovered bulimic, according to SFGate. A lengthy version of her post on her Facebook page that now has over 100,000 fans. Some parts of Kang's post states:
"What I WILL say is this. What you interpret is not MY fault. It's Yours. The first step in owning your life, your body and your destiny is to OWN the thoughts that come out of your own head. I didn't create them. You created them. So if you want to continue 'hating' this image, get used to hating many other things for the rest of your life. You can either blame, complain or obtain a new level of thought by challenging the negative words that come out of your own brain."
