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birth. She explained to HuffPost
over email:
“As a teenager I suffered from
feelings of deep unworthiness. I
had acne and I was unable to look
in a mirror for nearly three years,
unless it was by candlelight. ... I
gained 50 pounds with my pregnancy and that added to my personal history of oppressive selfloathing in a culture that praises
mostly photoshopped images of
women in media.”
The project is volunteer-driven,
and Beall does each photoshoot
for free. She writes on Kickstarter
that she plans to use some of the
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Shaming mothers for
not ‘bouncing back’ after
childbirth can cause feelings of
failure when being a mother is
challenging enough and when a
big number of us have already
lived a life of feeling unbeautiful prior to giving birth.”
extra money she has raised to help
people travel to her studio in Tucson, Ariz.
“We are facing an epidemic of
women who feel unworthy of being called beautiful,” Beall told
HuffPost, describing a world in
which “nearly all of us struggle
to feel beautiful in our own skin.”