(Cover of A Beautiful Body Project's The Bodies Of Mothers Due out Mid April 2014)

Happy Happy last day of 2013, Beautiful People. I am SO eternally grateful for this EPIC year of 2013. Since July, this project has grown far and wide and surpassed all of my wildest dreams because of YOU. Because you all choose to support this work by pre-ordering the book or maybe you funded my Kickstarter campaign or maybe you interviewed me (BIG thanks to Emma Mustich) or maybe you shared your vulnerability with me and us. This global media transformation to praise each other, inside and out is happening only because as a collective we decide that we want to see and feel and share things differently. When we feel empowered and lead by example that by being kind to ourselves and to others we end this epidemic of feeling unworthy to be called beautiful or to feel irreplaceably precious and we live the powerful and meaningful lives we were born to live! Thank you thank you thank you for joining this movement with me and millions of others worldwide.

And I'm wrapping up the final details of this book which WILL be ready and sent to all of the pre-ordered supporters for mother's day 2014. Here is a the first sample of a page layout I have shared!

The Huffpost Parents just named my project as one of the best of the year and I am so beyond honored and blinking back tears in disbelief that this support and love is for real:

And last but not least my new favorite happenin' here on this website is the sharing of other women's photography who are as passionate as I am in providing therapeutic photo shoots for women to facilitate feeling irreplaceably beautiful just as they are while sharing the story of their own or their model's precious life-story. I am especially fond of this blog from one of our new Regional Photographers and this image from that piece:

Thank you for a wonderful year. I am here because you are here and it is pretty awesome.

Love and hugs,

jade