Body Love
Just like you learned the ABCs, you can learn to love your body. Not the one you wish you had. This one. The one you are living in today.
No doubt you’ve been practicing social distancing, or maybe even lockdown, for at least a few days. We are all spending more time at home, more time walking past our mirrors, more time alone with our thoughts and insecurities.
There are some truly reprehensible people in the world. Sexual harassers. Irresponsible rabble-rousers. Brutal dictators. Loathsome celebrities. Mean people of all sorts. Some of them are overweight.
I talk to women about their bodies all day long. In the process, I hear a recurring comment: “He (or she) really loves my body.”
What’s wrong with me? Do I really look like this? Is my stomach really that big? Why are pants so tight. Uuggghhhh, I need to lose weight. I’m sure we’ve all said these things out of our mouths.
So you’ve finally figured out how to love your body, or at the very least be at peace with it. Now what?
When Marlee Dater and Lauren Baez briefly met at a New York audition, they had no idea that the brief meeting would change their lives … and the lives of other curvy artists around the country.
If you’re a Madonna fan, you’ve undoubtedly sang the lyrics, “Strike a pose there’s nothing to it … Vogue” hundreds of times. But is it really that easy?