C wanted boudoir pictures finally, because she’s always wanted to do them. She had a vision of a grungy spaced filled with the beauty of the female body, but I don’t know that she was visualizing just how beautiful she actually is. After reviewing her proofs, C sent me this:
“I was most happy to see me in these images. This is the complete opposite reaction that I thought I would have as I nervously opened my gallery… This is straight out evidence of my body as it was on that day, months away from my 40th birthday. I’ve nibbled all my fingernails away anxiously awaiting the outright truth that would lie in my images – my body exposed as it is – forcing me to look at myself as I am. Because truthfully I’m in that ‘place’ where I avoid my reflection in store windows as I pass by. I’ve been much thinner in the past…
But I couldn’t be happier! We all say we’re going to wait until we’re in better shape. We wait for 5, 10, 20 more pounds to come off. I’m SO happy I didn’t wait! I love that these images are me, now. It’s really my favorite thing about this experience. The skin on my face doesn’t look like it did 20 years ago but this face has carried me through 40 years now. All those lines have come from so much laughter, good memories under the sun, and many tears, all which got me to where I am today. This is who I am and having you photograph me now was perfect. Not waiting until I was ‘perfect,’ was the best gift I could’ve given myself. “
Now that‘s beauty. You are perfect, C. I’m so happy to have photographed you perfectly as you are.
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