This blog is for women.
It was intended to be a collection of pictures of real women's bodies. Why? Because from an early age we are saturated with unrealistic images of women in the media and in the porn industry, and most women learn to have an unhealthy relationship with their own image and body. This can lead to feelings of inadequacy right up to full-blown eating disorders and shopping compulsions. Women in some way looking to make themselves fit the 'ideal', when in truth they are already beautiful, each in their own way, if only they would stop comparing themselves with others.
However, with all good intentions, there is a problem. What woman in their right mind would forward pictures of themselves in the nuddy, to a blog owner they don't know? I mean, I know I'm a well meaning woman but I could be a weirdo, right? Well I'm not. I'm just passionate about promoting a healthier relationship with our own bodies. I do believe the media and the images of women it presents, interferes with our own natural loving relationship with ourselves. Most of us simply don't look like those women. We don't 'match up' but should we really have to?
So although this blog is a celebration of REAL women's bodies, I do have a problem about how to obtain images of real women's bodies. I'll have to have a think about how to get around this problem. Maybe I can tackle it in a different way by creating a questionnaire for women about their relationship with their body. I'll have to leave this site on pending for a while, while I wait for some inspiration to arrive!
If you're passing by and having suggestions, please drop me a line at writer.unleashed@gmail.com
In the meantime, please know that you are beautiful, as a woman, just being you. You do not have to be like a supermodel. You can just be you. Lumps and bumps and imperfections.
This blog is an invitation to you, to love yourself as the beautiful woman that you are - just as you are now. :)
