A teacher by day, Mindi Jensen is a divorced mother of four who loves to, well, show off her body. If you had to pop onto her Instagram account, you’d notice that Mindi is actually a bodybuilder and has won many awards competing in bodybuilding competitions. She shares her progress on Instagram, detailing gaining weight and muscle and practising her poses. You see, she is also a bikini model.

However, things got a little sour when students of hers found her Instagram account and told their parents about it.

These kids found it and the parents were appalled by the pictures calling them immodest. They called it pornographic. They called the pictures inappropriate and these are my fitness and show pictures in my sport, in my uniform in my bodybuilding sport.

So what did the parents do? They complained to the school, who then gave Mindi three options: to make her profile private, take her bikini and bodybuilding pictures down or be sacked.

But Mindi, who first complied by making her account private, soon had a change of heart.

Why am I taking this picture off, I get comments and messages that it’s inspirational to them and these women like my story. If I put it to private, it’s not going to reach these people that might need and understand me.

I get women, single women, single mommas that message me, even on Instagram they will message me and tell me that what they read and what they see that I’m doing has inspired them to be healthier, has inspired them to leave a bad situation, to build strength.

Mindi felt the school was wagging their finger at the wrong party.

Why are my rights being taken away and not the child’s right. It’s between the parent and the child. Put restrictions on your children. If you are not comfortable with seeing me in my fitness uniform on stage posing then take that away from your kid. Don’t take it away from me.

The school district agreed with her view and said that Jensen can keep her job teaching the children and her Instagram post can remain public. #Winning.

[source: news]