Photographer Celebrates Mothers' Real Bodies in 'A Beautiful Body' Book Project Andri Antoniades - TakePart
go to original June 30, 2013

Support a book & new media platform for women to celebrate our bodies just as we are without digital alteration. (Jade Beall)

Photographer Jade Beall never believed that she lived up to traditional standards of beauty. And so when she snapped a semi-nude self-portrait of her un-retouched, post-partum body, and published it on her Facebook page, she was somewhat surprised at how popular the photo became.

Not only were users liking and sharing it, but Beall was flooded with requests from other women asking her to photograph their post-partum bodies as well. And so she did.

Since then, taking these pictures has turned into a mission for Beall, one that she hopes will help “redefine beautiful.”

In a recent interview with HuffPo Live, she explained, “I just want to empower… other women to feel authentically irreplaceable.”

The women she’s so far captured on film have become part of a series she named A Beautiful Body, which Beall hopes to turn into a published book, backed by the help of her Kickstarter fund.

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