Young Swedish Woman in a Bikini

Photo: Linda-Marie Nilsson

What? Not the photo you'd expect to see from the title?

20-year-old Swedish woman Linda-Marie Nilsson went to the beach, snapped a photo of herself in a bikini, and went viral:

Nillson uploaded the photo on Wednesday evening with the comment that if all those people with flat stomachs could post images of themselves at the beach, then so could she.

Just hours after going public with the pic, it had received several thousand likes, and within twenty-four hours this number had swelled to 60,000.

“After I made it public things started happening,” laughed Nilsson.

She added that she posted the image as a way to make plumper people snap photos of themselves at the beach too.

“It is mostly skinny girls that post photos of themselves in bikinis. Those who are a bit plumper like me usually just take photos of other things,” she said.