“Frumpy Mum” Promoting Body Confidence With Social Media Send-Ups

Lisa Lloyd, 38, of Kent, has won huge support for her pictures showing poses including dodgy karate kicks and toilet rolls covering her bare breasts.

The mother of two, who hid her body as a teenager because her breasts were different sizes, has taken to social media to post a variety of “frumpy mum” versions of other Instagrammers’ glamorous photos.

Her account has generated laughs and almost 15,000 followers, with Lisa roping in her engineer husband, Terry, as chief photographer – although she says they sometimes “start getting really angry with each other” during their down-to-earth photoshoots.

But her funny project, which kicked off when she broke her foot in 2020 and posed in a support boot, has a more serious mission — to give others the courage to accept their bodies and being different.

Lisa, of Larkfield, Kent, whose children Finley, eight, and Poppy, five, both have autism, said:

“I’ll have people telling me about affairs they’re having, people’s experiences with depression and I think it’s good for them to be able to talk to somebody that doesn’t know them.

“They’re not getting any judgement from me and I hope I am helping some people.”

“One woman said she’d always been too afraid to show off her mum tum. But, since seeing me online and being confident about mine, she was wearing a bikini for the first time.”

Despite her seemingly confident pose, Lisa had not always been comfortable in her own body.

As a teenager, her right breast was a EE cup while her left breast was a C cup, which made her feel horribly self-conscious.

She said:

“I used to have to wear a chicken fillet in my bra on one side to try and match it up to the other one.

“It was something that really affected me at school. I used to avoid PE as much as possible and especially swimming.”

Lisa can be found on Instagram by searching for the catchy name @asd_with_a_g_and_t.