"The body he fell in love with fit into tight jeans, could walk into a shop and grab any size and walk out, knowing it fit."
She then described how "it isn't fair" her body had changed so much when her husband's had remained the same. "This body now ... mostly wears leggings. His body stayed the same, but mine changed in every way," she wrote.
The raw, emotional account from the Melbourne mother has struck a chord with mothers across Australia, and has been shared more than 55,000 times and liked more than 30,000 times. But her heartbreaking account turns into a heartwarming one when she describes her husband's response to her body image difficulties.
"Then he said, 'you're right. It isn't the body I fell in love with. Instead it's a body that grew our children, it fed our children, it comforted our children, it made life.