1. “This body is mine and it gave me a beautiful boy. How can I shame something that can do that?”
2. “I am the product of rape. A lot of women would have aborted a child like me. Not my mom. At 19 years old she not only gave birth to me, but struggled to keep me, support and love me. She is a strong woman. She is my mom.”
3. “It annoys me when people ask me if I am trying for a girl. It’s like to say they aren’t good enough.”
4. “I felt incredibly beautiful when pregnant and also feel beautiful when I am nursing. It’s only when I step outside my house into society that I feel like I have to look a certain way. I will never be what society deems beautiful.”
5. “As a child I struggled with anxiety and my children remind me so much of myself. Sometimes when I am telling my children that they are safe, I feel tears come to my eyes because I am telling myself the same thing in those moments.”
6. “I was raised by several family members who were not my parents. Having parents who chose not to be in my life as a child was challenging. Now as a mother I feel incredibly lucky that I get to be with them every single day. There is nowhere else I’d rather be.”
7. “I decided it was time to start loving myself despite what society says is flawed about my body. I would never talk to a friend the way I talked about myself, so why did I think it was okay to belittle who I was?”
8. “I started this project for so many reasons. She is one of them. I want my daughter to know that she is beautiful.”
9. “I am now 9 months postpartum and I definitely don’t look like I did before. But, that’s okay. I have a beautiful child, a loving husband, and I love my life now, and that’s all that matters to me.”
10.”My son is the reason I am still here and able to be a part of this project today. When he was little, I was in such a hole, full of depression. I though about taking my life. It was because of my son and that image in my head that I was able to walk past the medicine cabinet and a gun case. Unless you suffer from depression or know someone who does, you would not understand it to well.”
11. “I struggled with body image issues through most of my adolescence. Today I am facing my fear of rejection and being not good enough for my daughters’ sake as my own. I want them to know that they are exactly good enough.”
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