This article originally appeared on People.com.
Jordaan Spark was 250 lbs. when she
married her husband, and never thought he would be able to pick her up. So when
she lost 130 lbs. after two years of dedicated diet and exercise and he was
able to lift her, she wanted to share the milestone on Instagram — even though
this meant putting her loose
skin on display.
“I’ve never had anyone pick me up since I was a kid, and I was
around 250 lbs. when I reconnected with my husband, so I never would even let
him try,” the Bastrop, Texas-based stay-at-home mom, 24, tells PEOPLE. “So
when he picked me up with no hesitation, I was over the moon. I wanted to
document it with a picture so that I could share my ‘non-scale victory’ with my
weight loss community, because it’s a pretty big deal!
http://bit.ly/2rGCRo2
The occasion happened while Spark was wearing a swimsuit,
and admits she initially hesitated to share the photo.
“For a split second, I thought, ‘I can’t post this, my skinlooks awful,’ but after that moment I posted it anyways because I’ve worked so
hard to lose this weight,” she says. “I don’t want to sugarcoat anything. This
is me and the skin I live in every day.”
I think it’s gone viral because it is so raw, and thousands
of people are experiencing the same thing with weight loss and loose skin,” she
says. “It kind of comes with the territory of losing over 130 lbs.!”
Spark had struggled with her weight since she was a kid, and
before she decided to get healthy, she never really paid attention to what sheate
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