Strip. Swim. Feel better. Photo: Twitter
If you blinked, and wore clothes, you missed it. Yesterday, the world’s largest nude ocean swim, called the Sydney Skinny, took place in Sydney, Australia, to promote healthy body image. Event creator, Nigel Marsh, is quoted as saying the point of the Sydney Skinny is to “be utterly authentic and stick two fingers up at all those ludicrous, airbrushed images of bodily perfection in the magazines.”
In an attempt to shed insecurities and grow their confidence, roughly 1,000 swimmers lined Cobbler’s Beach to get “people of all ages, sizes, and ethnicities to come together to celebrate life. What better way to spend a Sunday morning to celebrate acceptance, joy and understanding.”
Last year, the first year, the record was set at roughly 750 naked, celebrating swimmers and it looks like yesterday broke it with roughly 250 additional bare bathers. Once this horde of nudity released their odds and ends for all to see, they swam either a 300 or 900-meter course. For the sake of modesty, swimmers were greeted at the shore’s edge with bright orange sarongs.
The project, besides promoting healthy body image, also pledges to raise about $50,000 for the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife, specifically Middle Head National Park.
