Photography project help needed!
Hello, I'm an A Level photography student that needs some help with a project!
My project is trying to raise awareness of how people really feel about their bodies when the facade of fake positivity and pressures from the media/other people is stripped away.
I was wondering whether any of you could help me?
I simply need a short letter written by you entitled 'Dear Body'.
Are you happy with your body, at peace with yourself? Or are you at war with you body?
It can be positive or negative, I just need a couple of lines about how you truly feel about living within your own skin.
Feel free to reply with your letter on here, or post it on your Instagram account with the hashtag #hellotomybody
They can be annoymous or have your name and age at the bottom, it's up to you.
Thank you in advance for all your help - keep smiling!
Dear body,
I am sorry. I am sorry for all that you've been through. It must have been hard on you when the plastic surgeon criticized you a few months ago. A few months ago. He said your lips could be plumper, your breast could be enhanced, your cheek bones can be intensified. I didn't know that they were following a specific model for a perfect body. I'm sorry for making you go through those surgeries to remove my stretch marks. You know my boyfriend wouldn't have accepted me otherwise. I am sorry for thinking that you are beautiful after the plastic surgeries conducted on you. It all started when I saw the cover of Vogue. The cover of Vogue. I should never have, I was so happy. So innocent. Look what happened. My innocence and my orignality is lost somewhere in the voids of the Vogue cover. I am sorry. Iam sorry for putting you through so much. I shouldn't have.
- Shubhangi Jagdev (allnaturalHeart64)
@allnaturalHeart64 thank you for your response!
@gracefulpeace that was a rather cold response. Didn't like my writing?
@gracefulpeace
Dear body,
I should honestly treat you way better than I do. I have to be honest, I don't really like you sometimes, but I should take care of you instead of reject you, hurt you, and feed you awful (though delicious) things. I'm constantly making you expand when I want you to shrink. Despite the many changes you need to go through to be healthy and strong, you should be proud of who you are.
Your skin is mostly smooth and your chub makes you soft and huggable. Those things are important. Remember those things. Remember the good things. You drive me crazy and I pull and grab at your fat, but I'm the real one who needs help in accepting you. I'm the one who needs to love and help you.
We might not get better today or tomorrow, but I can hope for that we'll get better some day. Maybe one day, I'll like you.
Sincerely,
Elena, age 19
@EleNergy thank you so very much x
@gracefulpeace
Dear body,
Tear me apart everyday
A constant reminder I stand before you
Uncomfortable in this skin
You look at me different
-brokengirl
Dear body,
Sometimes, I hate you.
I hate your stomach and your thighs, I hate the way your hair frizzes, I hate your spots, I hate the way your ears stick out.
I think that quite a lot of the time, body, you are ugly.
Body, you are nothing compared to others. Others are beautiful. You are, on a good day, pretty.
But on those good days, sometimes, sometimes I can look in the mirror, and think "that body is pretty" or "that body isn't half bad" of even "that body is enough."
Most of the time, body, you aspire for enough.
Sincerely, anonymous