The fabulous calendar girls of Whimple. When it came time for Cathy Bartlett-Horwood to drop her dressing gown to the floor and stand naked in her village hall in front of her friends, she was nervous. The year-old has had a complicated relationship with her weight for many years. She was so nervous, in fact, that she was physically sick beforehand. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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Skip navigation! Story from Body. This article was originally published on May 16, If you're trying to find the words to describe photographer Maisie Cousins' work , "visceral" is a good start — but that barely covers it. Cousins creates images that are at one time sensual, raw, glamorous, and maybe a little gross. But all of that is extremely intentional.
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A 'healthy body' looks and feels very different on each and every one of us. Sadly though, research conducted by Women's Health as part of our campaign, Project Body Love , found that three-quarters of British women don't feel confident in their own skin. The reality is, for most women, being naked is not a feel-good place to be. It's wanting to embrace the female form in all of its diverse glory that inspired Women's Health's very first Naked Issue back in , for which actress Zoe Saldana fronted the magazine's cover in the nude, with trainer Tracey Anderson and former reality star Millie Mackintosh going buff within the pages. September saw presenter and singer Rochelle Humes taking the cover, with professional climbers and football and rugby players also appearing in the magazine. To celebrate the stars of the Naked Issue, past and present, WH has collected a series of the images of the women who have bared all in the name of body confidence and female empowerment. Straight up: Healthy is not a body shape, it's a lifestyle — as the 40 different shapes, sizes, mindsets and mentalities of the women below prove. She says: 'I'm not perfect. I'm not trying to represent myself as being some perfect girl, but I love myself, flaws and all. She says: 'I used to take pride in the fact I didn't have to work out — then I hit that age where I have too.
Monica Hernandez. In the arts, there is a long lineage of painting non-white subjects in ways that highlight their antithesis to ideals of whiteness and its associated notions of beauty. Today, artists are changing that, with women of colour carving out a space for themselves in the canon of art history. Bianca Nemelc. How does your heritage influence your work? On my mother's side, I'm Dominican. Learning about my heritage informs my work and the palettes that I use to paint the women -- I always use a bunch of different shades of brown. It's kind of a way for me to pay homage to the different shades that are within the stories of me. Your images depict larger than life women in the nude, why did you choose to do that? It's very important for the figures I am painting to have a presence in whatever spaces they are existing.
