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i'm sick of dislikning my body, my belly, my stretchmarks and legs. this body is mine and it's a freaking badass.it's a survivor. my body worked when everything else didn't, when i felt like i was dead, my legs had me standing.
really now is time to stop bodyshaming, and not just i. this is to all of you man and woman who sometimes feel that you hate your own body. remember the legs that keeps you standing up.
stop body shaming.
Love // Mathilda
Feelin' melancholy today, feeling a outraged by the murders in Arizona, feeling like yelling and screaming and protesting in the streets.
Instead, I'll go to work and see what happens tomorrow.
I did a shoot with this model a while ago who came back for a bikini shoot. She wanted me to do some retouching. Clearly she is just an ordinary girl with an ordinary figure and ordinary flaws. I took care of her pooch, slimmed her hips and waist and removed the stretch marks on her love handles.
This could be the last belly shot in this series! Everyone guesses the baby will come this week. Of course, I could go overdue and have him or her in 2 or 3 weeks. We will see ;)
Hurricane Irma spawned tornados in our area and struck us before the winds of Irma arrived. Crack! And our 12 trunk Ficus was covering our roof and our 75 ft Ceiba was lying across my neighbors lawn, a heart pounding three feet from their front wall!
Ceiba is a genus of trees in the Malvaceace family, native to tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas and tropical West Africa. Some species can grow to 70 m tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress roots that can be taller than a grown person. The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra, one of several trees called kapok.
The stretchmarks are from my pregnancies, but the skin is hyperelastic over much of my body, my stomach is just the most easily photographed.
Some days, I really don't feel comfortable in my own skin. I don't like my body, my thighs, my stretchmarks, my soft stomach, and my not so perky breasts.. Some days I would change almost everything about myself, for any amount of money.
Self acceptance sometimes feels nearly impossible to me. It's a life long issue. Focusing on improving myself, and being happy in my own skin, while simultaneously trying to lose weight and be healthier, feels like something that is mutually exclusive. It's difficult to differentiate between getting fit because I love my body, and losing weight because I hate it. How to tell the difference between self love, and accepting mediocrity: Because I know my body could be stonger?
I know not the answers. l
Because I can't seem to take photos of anything but myself.
I like my stretchmarks on rare occasions.
I really hate how my belly looks now, it looks horrible, you know it does too! Dont try feed me bull shit!
Well, things must be a-changin. I don't think I've uploaded something SOOC since....2007.
Just went to take my 26 week pics, and as usual because I'm so fabulously organized and with-it (ahem) I found my 25 week pictures....and thought "screw it" and decided to upload one.
Just so ya'll can see I'm still livin, breathin, and expanding in girth. :)
No stretchmarks yet, either! Woo hoo! Score for being doughy! LMAO!
hope everyone is good, still think of ya from time to time! Hugs from me and the halfling! xox
For FGR and Words on skin
imo, this world has a pretty off few on beauty. We get to see images of what is suppose to be 'beautiful' but mostly it's nothing more then 'skinny skeletons'. I think it is sad to see so many people (we tend to say girls, but it's boys aswell) that feel they have to look exactly like that, and go through hell to get to that goal. Does it make them happier? Maybe a select few, but I think the majority wont be any happier.
When I was younger I felt I was ugly and fat and that nobody would ever love me cause of it. What made the difference for me tho, was that my friends and family always did there best to make me see otherwise. Actually, until recently, every time my boyfriend told me I was pretty and looked good, I would always disagree with him. I just couldnt see the image he saw, and just take a compliment.
This project already changed alot for me (and I only just started), not wanting to sound like I have a major ego, but I can see now that I am beautiful. When I see photo's of myself, that I made, and they look stunning, I get all warm inside and think 'Yes, they were right, I am beautiful'. Even if I'm a bit chubby, have stretch marks, scars...I see those things now as to something that makes us unique...and beautiful.
I don't think my belly has grown much more these past 2 weeks, and that's totally fine with me, as I don't know how much more my skin could handle! I have definately gotten some more stretchmarks the past month. I am gettings some cramps lately, and I have a feeling this baby is ready to come out. I know I am ready!
A photo of what my belly looked at 39 weeks with my first pregnancy can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/steffievandenakker/6784476525/in/se...
My belly is bigger this time, although my uterus measures the same, but I have gained less weight :)
I re-pierced my bellybutton again today.
I love love love my tummy, even more since I've had Acey! My tummy button poked out when I was pregnant and never went back in again :) and you can't see my stretchmarks very well in this pic but they are a bit like a sunshine around my bellybutton. I think so anyway!
i've seen a couple pictures of stretch marks floating around. just thought i'd share mine.
not much to say. there they are! :) my natural tats.
First i saw these and "Yeah Tattos, Freckles... cute!"
but than i saw bruises, Scars, cellulite and stretchmarks and i was "What the Hell?".
But than i read the explanations on the Card and its a good way to tell the Kids that this is natural.
I wouldn´t buy this.
First the Stickers look terrible on Dolls and its way to expensive.
Got some more stretchmarks.. Strangely enough, all on my legs and not on my belly! Everything is going well, counting down the last couple of weeks!
This is by far the most honest image i ever posted. This is the raw reality and something i have been thinking of doing for long.
This is me,withou liquify tools, without any less or any more of what i really have. I did edit the colors a bit,gave it some contrast, but what you see here is the real me, just as i am, with no fear, no regrets.
I thought well about this, mostly because some what i am tired of all the girls around me crying herselves to how they skinny they want to be for summer, how they want their bones to be exposed, how they want their legs not to touch, how they want this and that, how they even put theirselves to starvation if needed to achieve that. Well, i love myself with all that i am. Do i feel intimidated sometimes? Yes,i do. Do i feel embarassed at some points when i wear less clothes? Without a doubt. However i can still smile at who i am, i don't mind being bigger then most of my friends, having stretch-marks, huge muscles legs and arms, i still love myself and i think that it took me a while to deal with this. I was overweighted ever since i was four or so but right now, at the age of 21 i love myself just as i am, with all the extra curves, all the little things, i won't hide myself and that's it.
I would have a lot more to say but i think sometimes images speak for a 1000 words. If you feel bothered you're more then welcome to leave, if you want to speak your mind please do so, if you don't have nothing to say just think about this. I am not what the society expects me to be, i am however who i am supposed to love.
Ceiba is a genus of trees in the Malvaceace family, native to tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas and tropical West Africa. Some species can grow to 70 m tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress roots that can be taller than a grown person. The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra, one of several trees called kapok.
Cocoa butter has been working like magic. It's scary. This is maybe a week or two in? My other stretch marks have gotten lighter, too.
Model: J. Green
Location: Sydney, Australia
Photographer: Adrian McHarg
©2009 A Captured Moment Photography
The slide is a photograph of my mom and my Grandma, shot on Dec. 76. This is a self portrait with the use of a pen light to project the slide. I was pregnant with my 2nd child at the time. Hoping to get a girl, I decided to include the other two CHUNG women on my belly.
Post process in photo shop to get rid of the stretch marks and define the line on the projection.