A note on the female body

As a photographer for WOMEN, I’m here to bring you a shocking revelation:

WOMEN HAVE CURVES, ROLLS, FOLDS.

I know, it’s crazy. But what can I tell you. As a proud owner of a BODY, it is in fact, TRUE.

It’s ABSOLUTELY impossible for a woman to bend at the waist and NOT have some sort of fold or roll. Any size. Any height. WAISTS BEND.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?! IMPOSSIBLE. So if you see the pose in an ad, a magazine spread, a flyer, a poster, a catalog, literally anywhere and there’s nothing but smooth waist? YEP, it’s been photoshopped. NO HUMAN LOOKS LIKE THAT.

You see a woman over 30 with absolutely NO texture in her skin? Oh sister….. FILTERS/PHOTOSHOP/EDITS.

A woman with curves but no cellulite? LOL come on. As a woman WITH curves I’m here to disappoint you yet again and let you know – WE ALL HAVE CELLULITE.

And here’s the thing – If we just frickin’ started showing MORE REAL ACCURATE BODIES, maybe. JUST MAYBE. We’d start getting more young girls that don’t hate their thighs, girls that know stretch marks ARE PERFECTLY NORMAL on fast growing bodies. Girls that feel at home in the body they have. What a world.

AND HEY, mayyyyybe those girls will grow up to be badass women who like their bodies just as they are, dimples, rolls of fat, skin, wrinkles and all. They’ll be women who don’t compete with other women over who can keep the slimmest figure, the tightest abs and roundest butt. Because they’ll know their value lies elsewhere. NOT solely in how the world perceives their bodies.