I understand that many of the women who need this healing work may face financial circumstances that prevent them from contributing financially to “A Beautiful Body Project” so here are 8 Free Ways that don’t cost a penny that ANY woman can do to help the movement! Which will you choose?
- Join my newsletter by filling out the info in the right column of this site or simply text ABEAUTIFULBODY to 22828 to sign up. This will allow you to stay informed on the movement so you can help spread the word. Don’t worry, I only send out as many emails as I would want to receive myself!
- Click the Share buttons on any or all pages/posts that you resonate with emotionally! I can’t tell you how much this helps!
- Follow the project’s social media platforms. Click Here: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest
- Submit your story. It costs nothing & allows your voice to be heard! Click Here to learn more.
- Tell 3-5 women you know who might benefit from getting on board.
- Write to your local or state newspapers or media stations and ask them, “Will you consider running a story on A Beautiful Body Project, which is a movement to empower women to build healthy body image?”
- Leave comments on the website’s pages/posts.
- Send out your best thoughts and wishes on the project’s behalf. Seriously. I believe in the power of intention and I have everything on the line to do this. So thank YOU!
It means the world to me that you would consider any of these actions and better yet, can I ask you to consider doing any of them periodically? Maybe once a week you might check in and give a little push? Every one of these actions won’t cost you any money and helps me keep this platform ad-free!
-Jade Beall
Founder :: A Beautiful Body Project
Dear Jade, Blessings to you for creating such an incredible project that can empower and inspire women all over the world. Have you thought of contacting Oprah and going on her show? I’m serious. Susan
I would of course be a child at Christmas to meet the Shero of my heart O!!!! Maybe maybe! Dreams come true… Xoxo
Hi
your pictures are beautiful. I totally support you. I just can’t wait to see your book. I do know how it fells when you see your body after giving birth, with all the pounds that you still have but with no baby inside. Finally someone who wants to show mother and not only unreal young photoshopped women.
Wonderful
This is such an important project! You are a gifted photographer; thank you for sharing these photos and gifts!!
Hi Jade,
My boss posted your video on her Facebook page and I watched it over and over. Your project is inspirational and fearless.
I do not yet have a child but I have often thought about what changes my body would go through during and after pregnancy. Your images make me feel stronger and more secure.
I am going to try and tell Ellen about your project…I think it would be wonderful if you could get the book on there.
Keep up the important work,
Amy, Vancouver BC
Thank YOU Amy! I would love for Ellen to see this!!! Very kind of you. And I too watch the video over and over, and so does my partner Alok. Never gets old. Happy Sunday! -Jade
this work is hitting me at a very significant time which makes it that much more poignant and beautiful. distorted self-image is a new struggle of mine (i’m 32) and it is debilitating and something I NEVER expected I would be dealing with. the words and the images in the video brought tears to my eyes. i wish this story wasn’t so true and so prevalent in our culture today. thank you for sharing a more healing, self-accepting and reality-driven perspective.
Hey!! Thank’s!!!!
I’m not a mother but I’ve seen my body changing through years, so many times… Sometimes bigger, sometimes thinner, some other just “not-in-shape”… and 2 years ago I was terrified by the realization of an unconscious anorexia I put myself into… terrified about the amounts of energy I could spent thinking “I should eat less or work-out more”, “this belly should be flatter”, “These legs are just too fat” (speaking about my own body as if it wasn’t my own… and all that just because I wanted to fill up the absurd external demands I let get in me. I’ve been smashed by the recurrent thought of ideal bodies determining our self-esteem, instead of allowing ourselves to be inspired by our own self (from the inside-out and make THAT our only legit demand), just as it is… to love ourselves, with all the perfect imperfections that make us be who we are.
I saw your video because my boyfriend post it on his fb wall, and tagged his sister in law (mother of two beautiful and lovely girls)… I brought to my mind all the changes my body has been through, and imagined all that are still to come. I don’t know if I’ll be blessed with a baby of my own or not (haven’t try yet…), nor if I’ll have the chance to see how my body reshapes with another life inside me… but I still think every body is perfect… all kinds of marks or scars, or whatever our body holds as a reminder of our own history is just a miracle itself.
Thank you Jade, for this amazing work, this beautiful engagement with sanity and real beauty.
All the best for this project!!
I’ll definitively look for a chance to publish some reviews in different printed or on-line newspapers/magazines, etc, here in Mexico and around all the places I can.
Blessings,
Nuria
You are great! thanks for your project. I will share it with my friends here in Turkey.
I have wanted to visit Turkey for so many years!!!!! What a beautiful culture! Thank you for posting, Serap!
-Jade
Hello there! Greeting from Venezuela!
I’m not a mother yet, not even sure if I want to, but I cannot describe how much I admire you for this project, or how much I like it. It is beautiful, lovely, brilliant… You name it. I’m sharing it on FB, if that helps. Bless you for this!
Kisses and hugs!
Thank you Lulu! I hope to get to Venezuela one day to meet and photograph women like you, mothers or not! -Jade
Lovely. I’m 3 months postpartum and struggling in my body. Why is it that I felt more confident at 9 months pregnant? Why do I feel I should have lost every pound already? Learning to reclaim my beauty- stretch marks, tummy curves, thinning hair and all. Remembering what an incredible thing it is to grow and birth a human and then to nourish them with my milk. What could possibly be more beautiful? Thank you for this project!
Hi Jade. I´m from Colombia and I wanted to congratulate you for that awesome job. I´m sure that your awesome job, will help moms -just like me- to embrace their bodies… Thank you!!!
I hope to get to Colombia one day and photograph women there! -Jade
You have inspired me to see myself with new eyes! i don’t have to have the perfect body to be beautiful… i am already perfect with the way i am Now… I LOVE this proyect and really appreciate it!… I’m sharing it with all my friends mothers or not who struggles with their bodies. THANK YOU on behalf of every women.
All the way from COSTA RICA, i’m sending you all my support!!!
This is a beautiful project. I’m not a mom (yet) but the pervasive feeling of self-loathing that most women harbor is something that is damaging to all people- this is a great idea to help us accept ourselves and realize that while no one is perfect, we are ALL beautiful!
Thank you, Jade for taking this on!
I was intrigued when I saw this on my friends facebook…I opened it and I am mesmerized. at what an amazing project this is. I would love to be part of this promote it, anything I can do to get this to as many people as possible. Its hard to put into words how deeply I feel about this….you are amazing.. Thank you.
Hi Jade. Thank you for this project! Greetings from Croatia!
Hi Jade, what a fantastic project! I’m not pro/con breastfeeding. It’s everyones own choice, but I can’t believe women who say they’re not going to breastfeed because their bodies will change after that. No! Your body is changing anyway after having a child. Be proud of that body and honor it. It served a really wonderfull purpose! A great way of telling everybody that. I wish you all the best!
Judith,
The Netherlands
Brilliant Jade!
Instantly brought tears to my eyes. Honestly just had a conversation about this with my sister this morning. I am a 58 year old mother of two and a double mastectomy/reconstruction cancer survivor. So many thoughts, emotions fill my heart. Many blessing to you for the courage and determination to start such a beautiful project. I will certainly share and help you … I may even submit “my story”.
I can only say : wow so beautiful.
It’s a boost for me! It cheers me up!!
Angelique
The Netherlands
Greeting from Belgium!
Your projet is so great. I’m really loving it nad ‘im sure it could help a lot of us (mother) but not only mothers i think i could change some of the boys percerption of our body. My first pregnancy left bigs scars and 10 years after sometimes it’s still hard to see them. I really hope this book will reach a lot of people (of both gender) around the world and hope the message will change the way we/the people see the women body.
Your projet is pure hope for every woman. 😀
Jade, I think your project is amazing and your photos are beautiful. I am writing this from Vigo, Spain so your project has already come that far! Congratulations and thank you for your fantastic pics
Mission accomplish! I post your page web in my facebook and now I know more men and women around the world that read this will decide to be more REAL, more themselves in their speacially way. I totally support you and ecourage you! I am an ecuadorian mama of my first three moths baby and I hope this obssesion for the perfect body change! It is time. A big hug!
Hola, saludos enormes desde Argentina! Jade, lo tuyo es mas que un proyecto! Es un modelo, un ejemplo para todas. Soy estudiante de fotografía también, cuentas conmigo para lo que necesites si decidís hacer el proyecto de manera internacional. Si bien todas las mujeres sufrimos de alguna forma el cambio corporal, estaría bueno pensar cuanto mas nos condiciona la sociedad, la cultura, a la cual pertenecemos, no? Me emocioné mucho con las fotos y el video. Realmente maravilloso todo. Éxitos con esto, no te detengas!!!!
Jade,
I salute you. I had three babies in four years — in my mid-30s. Two c-sections in a row and then finally a VBAC as they called it then. I just turned 60 this year and I still have a difficult time celebrating my body which never “came back” after the birth of my daughter at age 36. Something about the third one … I work out like a boss, well, most of the time, I eat right, etc. etc. But I’m never “good enough.” Oh well … that theme has pervaded my life since I was a small child called “fatso”. As a “boomer” I grew up admiring anorexics like Twiggy (and became anorexic myself for awhile) … blessings and abundance from above for being inspired to do this work. The Dove commercials about beauty coming in all sizes just scratched the surface. You’re taking it to a full home run. You go girl. Namaste.
Sublime, vous avez du talent et c’est important de montrer ce corps car il est vrai que l’apanage de la maigreur par les médias ce n’est pas la vraie vie et concerne qu’une infime partie de la population. Notre corps est ce qu’il est, certes imparfait pour certaines d’entre nous mais il porte en nous l’amour que nous avons pour un être en devenir quand nous devons maman. Donner la vie est éprouvant physiquement et psychiquement, notre corps ne redevient pas forcement comme il était avant la grossesse, le bassin est plus élargi on a parfois des vergétures et des kilos que l’on arrive pas à perdre mais au final ce n’est rien comparer à ce petit être à qui on a donné la vie et qui vous comble de bonheur. Merci.
Una manera maravillosa de reconocer y amar nuestro cuerpo. Me veo reflejada en cada una delas fotos. Simplemente gracias!!!!
Que tu proyecto (que lo siento también mío y de todas las mujeres) pueda llegar a todos.
un gran abrazo desde Argentina.
I just shared your video via the Huffington Post. I cried like a baby watching it!!
I’ve been struggling with my body since I can remember, and maternity, almost 4 years ago, was very challenging. Unfortunately, life has brought me another challenge: breast cancer. It’s not only the scar on my breast, but also the effect of medication. The cancer is now in remission and I feel much better, but I still haven’t make peace with my looks.
I am the worst judge of myself, but I hope that one day I’ll be able to see myself as beautiful as I saw the women in your photographs.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful and empowering job!!
Greetings from Barcelona - Spain
I can only say: thank you!!
We need those kind of things.
Your project is beautifull.
Greeting from Belgium keep up this great work
Hello from Latvia!
This is something really different from anything I`ve seen. Something real. Thank You. I hope/believe that this is the turning point in many women thinking and living.
Thanks so much for this wonderful project. It is so important for our modern society to redefine what beautiful is. I am mum of two year old twin boys. The pregnancy left me hanging breasts and “twin skin” on my belly. Despite of being proud of what those marks mean for me (my healthy, beautiful sons) the idea of getting plastic surgery to “correct” them had crossed my mind a few times. However after seeing this project I am more proud and happy with my body as it is and I will never change it! Thanks again. I am just one more women positively influenced by your work. Can’t wait to see what comes next… Body in elderlyhood?
Vos photos m’ont touché. Elle m’inspire un mot : Générosité.
“La générosité, c’est toujours le sacrifice de soi ; il en est l’essence.”
Henry de Montherlant
Donner la vie est aussi un don de soi. Donner la vie c’est être généreux.
Ceux qui en ont vraiment conscience verront dans vos photos toute la beauté des femmes.
Merci
I am so so so pleased to come across your project. It is like a breath of fresh air. I have had 2 kids and struggle with my post baby body. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
I am touched even with just a glance through a couple of photos and it inspired me a lot! It is seriously a great initiative and I’m sure it will help a lots more women neither in physical way or mentally. Let’s roll the snow ball together so that it may benefits more!!
Dear Jade:
There are no words that can express my gratitude for both, you creating this space and having found it! A woman that belongs to Moms support group published an article on Face Book, so I went to your website and saw your video, I broke into tears, literally, since to me the physical change in my body has affected me emotionally in depth, althpugh I only gained 22 punds, I see a difference in my body that I cannot manage to accept, I used to live in the USA and now have moved to South America, it seems like in both places the so called perfect image puts a lot of pressure not only in us women but sadly in men as well; whom in one way or another end up hurting our feelings at times, I have suffered from my husband indirect rejection and even though he says that he is fine with my new body, so many things have changed that his words don’t match his actions, my heart is broken.
On the other hand, I have been blessed with the most amazing gift ever, my baby girl, she is a true blessing to my life.
I will print out pocket size cards with your website if you allow me so I can share it with as many women as I can, I am now traveling in Central America and plan to return to South America in about two months, rest assure that I will spread the word there as well.
God Bless…