For many of us, it’s a big deal to bare our body at the beach. Whether or not anyone is actually looking at you, it FEELS like they are.

So when mother-of five blah blah, decided to wear a bikini for the first time since having kids, she was understandably wary. What happened next was her (and every woman’s) worst nightmare.

All because her stomach looked like this:

But Jex-Blake has managed to get her revenge.

She published the above image along with an open letter to her three taunters on her Facebook page.

Her letter read:

The selfie and the letter have since gone completely viral. They have 3,500 shares from her personal Facebook page alone, and with the help of local radio station Hot 107 Edmonton, the number of people who have read her words and viewed her selfie is estimated to have exceeded 14 million.

The image’s popularity is heartening. It’s great to see that people across the world know that very few stomachs look like those we see in magazines. That they understand that stretch marks are a completely normal part of the human body, and substantially more prevalent than media representations of women’s bodies let on.

Hopefully, all of the attention means that the three people who taunted Jex-Blake will start to understand this, too.