Thousands of naked women ran into the sea in the world's largest ever skinny dip

"Women are amazing."
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While you were sunning your buns in the garden this weekend, thousands of women rocked up naked on a beach in Ireland to break the record for the world's largest skinny dip.

Over 2,500 women got down to their birthday suits for the sixth annual "Strip and Dip" charity swim on Magheramore Beach in County Wicklow, which was started by breast cancer survivor Deirdre Featherstone when she was undergoing treatment.

"This is a great women empowerment day," one of the participants told BBC Northern Ireland.

"You come here terrified because it's your first time and you're not used to getting all your clothes off and running naked into the sea, but when you get here it's like everyone knows everybody," another woman said.

One cancer survivor told the BBC the event had "empowered" her "to just enjoy what life has given" her.

"Women are amazing," she said.

Rachel Thompson, sits wearing a dress with yellow florals and black background.
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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