Tag: body image

Every body is beautiful

Found via the Dutch site famme.nl:

A video that will change the way you feel about yourself. And this is specifically geared towards the ladies, although I am convinced that gentlemen can benefit from watching this as well.

Australian Taryn Brumfitt is a chick on a mission! The mother of three children wants to change your (negative) view of your body through her documentary ‘Embrace’. It all started when she put her all but traditional before-and-after-photo on the Internet. That went over the world at high speed and brought her a wave of positive and negative criticism. This motivated her to make a documentary.

“People didn’t understand it. How can a woman still like to see her body (after)? When my courage was cheered upon by many, others blamed me that I was promoting being overweight and being a bad role model for kids. The only thing I could think of was to understand that the world is brainwashed,” says Taryn on her Kickstarter page.

Body Image

A brilliant observation on Body Image:

I was hanging out on the deck with a female friend this past weekend. It was hot, about 75F, and my friend had shed all her clothes.

“I don’t mind being nude here,” she told me. “Nobody can see us. But I wouldn’t want to be naked at a beach — I don’t have a nice body . . .”

And that in a nutshell is why some people fear social nudism, I suspect. Body image. They are self-conscious about their bodies because they don’t have the ideal model look (read: skinny).

I assured my friend that there is nothing wrong with her body, that she looks just fine, and that nudism is, in part, about liberating ourselves from unrealistic body images and just accepting and celebrating people as they are. I also explained that few people will be looking her body up and down.

I know how it is: we are our worst critics when it comes to our appearance. Yet I also know that when it comes to interactions with people, their appearance is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter whether they are fat, skinny or in-between. It doesn’t matter whether they look like Cinderella or The Phantom of the Opera. And it doesn’t matter whether they are dressed in the most fashionable clothes or clothes from a second-hand shop. What matters to most people is the soul reflection in their eyes and the love in their hearts.

There is more, go here to read the entire article as posted on Jillian’s page.