The medical profession "can be a very sexist world," Dr. Beaulieu told POPSUGAR. She joined the #medbikini movement because, as a female physician, "I know what it's like to always have to prove myself just because I am a woman. In this profession, the men are held to a different standard, and that's not fair."
Doctors are humans first, she said, with families, ambitions, dreams, and lives outside of medicine. "If you see me at the beach enjoying myself with my family, and of course wearing a bathing suit (because what else am I going to wear at the beach!), just know that this does not change my commitment to my career or to my patients."