This week’s image doesn’t seem very sinful at first sight. However there is something that still feels transgressive about showing my stomach even after all the work I have done in the gym and on loving my body as it is.
I used to feel I should cover it up, that it was a part of me that was long past its ‘good to look at phase’ due to lumps and bumps and stretch marks.
These days I am positively exhibitionist in comparison. I strip off willy-nilly in changing rooms. I no longer undress under my clothes. Sometimes I even admire myself in the mirrors at the gym and take the occasional photograph.
So this Sunday join me in celebrating a body that is loved and taken care of, that has given pleasure and life to me and others, and that I intend to inhabit to the full, to the end, whether that’s considered virtuous or sinful ?
Click on the lips below to see the others taking part this week.
Your wonderful confidence shines through, I love this photograph and those boobs are wonderful as well as the stomach
Thank you! It wasn’t always this way but now I feel pretty good. Not cos my stomach is flat or wrinkle free but because I love it for what it has brought me ?
I have mentioned you in my next blog post (not online yet, just tweaking). I can’t find the email address for communication
Ah. Can you Dm me on twitter? I can give you my real one which is better x
will do
I definitely celebrate with you. You look gorgeous, and I love the confidence in this post and image. Your confidence! 🙂
Rebel xox
You’re on your way too Marie. Celebrating that with you too. X
Eye!!! Virtuous AND sinful… all beautifully perfectly wrapped in one! As it should be! 😈 😉
Thank you Professor
YES!!
Your body and spirit are certainly both worthy of celebration! Well done and very very sexy! ~C
This is a pose of total confidence… you love who you are, and everyone else can take it or leave it or go to hell. Please taking photos in the mirrors… and share… looking forward to that. You look damn good to me.
Looking HOT!
Thank you ☺
Beautiful body and photo!
Thanks!
Hot damn – you’re buff!!! I think your stomach looks great, and I *love* the way your hair is cascading down – so sexy.
I was holding my breath! ?
Wow! You look amazing! So confident and in control. Self assured. Gorgeous!
I felt it in that moment ?
Fantastic!
I feel exactly the same about my tummy as you do but like you, I am working very hard on coming to terms with it and what it says about me. This is a lovely post and I am so glad you took this beautiful candid shot
Mollyxxx
Thanks Molly. I am thinking that there is scope for a project about women and their relationships with their stomach. It seems to be such a site of mixed emotions/responses.
I appreciate your comments and the fact that you host this wonderful idea very much x
AWESOME PIC!!!!!! I love it and so happy for you. It is an amazing feeling to finally feel at peace with how we look and not care (well not as much) what other’s think
It is. And I am ?
Such a gorgeous body
Thank you x
Just wonderful !!! . . . Wonderfully said . . . and wonderfully sexy!!!
Xxx – K
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I hate my stomach too and rarely publish an image unless the angles and lighting is right!
I have to say I used to be the same. So much so that I wouldn’t look in mirrors. I suspect that if I looked back I wouldn’t understand why because I think it would have been aesthetically much better than my stomach now!
Make friends with your unloved parts if you can. That is the way to happiness x
I do accept it, to a point, I think I’ll always prefer those more flattering angles though 🙂
That’s only natural ☺
I love this shot, I have looked at it several times. It shows a confident woman who is oozing appeal. Definitely gym time for me now!
This is a beautiful photo and the black and white edit is great. But your wonderful positive words are what make the whole post. Bravo! Xxx
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Too many sexy women have body image issues when there’s nothing at all wrong with them. I’m glad you’ve gotten past that, because your body HAS NO problem that you need to worry about.
Sexy lady!
Yay!! I ove the celebratory vibe to your photo and your words.
Thanks Maria ☺
Before I ever read your words I admired the strength and confidence your image exudes. After I read your words – I wanted celebrate with you. 🙂
Thank you. I hope we all get to a place where we celebrate what we have ?