I was perusing Jezebel, a well-known women's interest blog whose tagline is "Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women. Without Airbrushing." when I came across an article titled This is the Best Body-Positive Image You'll See Today in the trending section. It's an amazing blog piece on an amazing woman.
Denise Jolly is an activist and artist that promotes self-love and care, as well as the importance of a positive body image. Today Shameless Photography released a photo shoot of Jolly, recreating the infamous hitchhiking photo Madonna starred in in 1992.
The photo got a lot of publicity, even Madonna tweeted about the importance of the message it's sending. In the The Huffington Post article about the photo, Jolly is quoted as saying
"...it took 33 years for me to see women my size living proudly and unapologetically in their naked bodies. This is unacceptable. There are women, people, bodies all over the world raised to believe they are unwanted and invisible. We are not built to be invisible; we are built to be the cast and anchor of desire, no matter our size or makeup."
Jolly also did a 30 Day challenge where she took a photo of herself nearly nude in every photo and wrote somewhere in the photo "Be Beautiful". Denise Jolly is an amazing woman working to change the view on what is and is not beautiful in this country. She deserves all the publicity she can get, so I thought I'd help out and write my blog post about her. She stresses how difficult learning to love yourself can be, but it's absolutely worth the challenge. She also emphasizes the importance of loving yourself and your body in public, not just behind closed doors. Be loud and proud about the body you've got, be unrelentingly in love with what you have. As a 19 year old girl who has struggled to be in love with my own body, her words almost brought me to tears. She is such an inspiration and is a trail blazer in the fight for self-love.
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