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It’s taken 28 years on the earth to finally be comfortable with who I am. Majority of my life I’ve never felt enough, not good enough, not slim enough, not pretty enough and it goes on.
It’s only been in the last year, after hitting complete rock bottom, that I’ve looked inside and discovered who I am, what I like about myself and the parts of me that I don’t like. And the parts I don’t like?
I’ve worked on either changing them for the better, or learning to love them and allow myself some grace for any mistakes I’ve made. I’ve always felt uncomfortable in my body and I’ve been a gym goer for a number of years desperate to finally get the ‘dream body’, but I’ve only been taking it seriously this year, and my mind has shifted to instead of how it looks, to what it can do.
My body is so much stronger than I thought possible and it would be a disservice to hate the way it looks when it’s capable of so much.
It’s important to me to instil in my nieces and the younger generation of women that we aren’t just what we look like, I don’t want them to feel they are imperfect and instead be able to embrace their strengths and how they are so much more than they look physically.
I was drawn to this project because I felt it was a way to celebrating bodies no matter their age, and how every bump, cellulite or scar, is actually telling a story of a life lived, and that is beautiful way of viewing your body, that it’s how you have lived and how it continues to carry you through the journey of life.
Tessa’s offering is an image of her eye make-up –
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Phil Pool - Art and Protest 