After Kim Kardashian posted a nude selfie, the media accused her of exploiting herself and sending the message that girls are only good because of their bodies.

While a woman is worth more than her body, that doesn’t mean she should be shamed for showing it off and loving what she has.

In Kardashian’s case, there could be many reasons she posted the scandalous selfie: maybe she’s endorsed, maybe she’s showing off, or maybe she just loves her body and wants to promote self-love. Regardless, it doesn’t matter.

Critics fired at Kardashian for her choices. Actress Chloe Moretz was one of the first to call Kardashian out.

“I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than just our bodies,” Moretz said in a tweet.

Kardashian responded that there is nothing wrong with loving her body.

“I am empowered by my body. I am empowered by my sexuality. I am empowered by feeling comfortable in my skin,” Kardashian said. “It’s 2016. The body-shaming and slut-shaming — it’s like, enough is enough.”

Different women are empowered by different parts of themselves. For some women, empowerment comes from their minds, and for some women it comes from their bodies.

Regardless of what empowers certain women, everyone should respect that every woman’s ideologies of self-love and empowerment are valuable.        

A stigma exists surrounding naked bodies on the internet. Men are praised for showing defined abs, while women are shamed for showing a little bit of cleavage. Bodies are bodies: one gender should not be shamed for what the other is praised for.

Those who want to post pictures of their bodies should be able to do so freely. Judgment and negativity are the root of the shaming, which is unnecessary.

If someone wants to post a picture of themselves with little to no clothing on, who says they shouldn’t be able to?

Women are hard-working and independent and should never be told what they can and cannot do with their bodies.