Perfectly Me

10/02/2017

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29/09/2016

02/09/2016

"I am a woman with a body ..."

“I am a woman with a body. For that I offer no explanation, shame, excuse or apology. In a culture obsessed with women shrinking, confidence is controversial. It is courage. I’m taking my peace back.”
~ Erin Brown

Artist: Christine Wu

22/08/2016

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Went shopping for a new dress, was happily browsing the racks when the shop assistant says, "Sorry darling those racks are size 6s and 8s only, the other racks will be better for you"

Hiding my offence I replied, "That's cool. I AM a size 6."

And that's when we shared one of those awkward moments, the ones where she knows I'm lying, I know that she knows that I'm lying, she knows that I know that she knows that I'm lying...
And I grabbed a size 6 dress to try on..

Feeling under enthused with the unsurprising results I returned from the change room and told her that the colour did nothing for me.

She responded with, "Wow, you are one of those beautiful women that I would think suits every colour"

Hmmmmm. It would appear that she is not the ar****le.... I am.

She wasn't body shaming my delicious she was being practical, it was ME who body shamed myself by taking offence!!!!!!

Today was a reminder that NO dress sizes are BETTER then any OTHER.

It's YOUR BODY. You only have ONE.

Love it. 💗👑

21/08/2016

Have you Embraced yet? ❤️

24/03/2016

More beautiful photography of beautiful humanity ❤️

11/03/2016

Couldn't have said it better ;)

Kim and I have really similar curves..

Kim's been called too fat, too thin, too fake, too everything.

She looks like this for a living and let's face it Queenies, competing with a mirror for Kanye's attention would be hard work 😓.
Women looking like Kimmy K on Instagram is not the the enemy.
Believing that this is the only definition of sexy is the enemy.
Sexy has endless variations, we might not all have this glamorous bathroom but we certainly all have our own sexy. 👊🏼
I bet Kim exercises... A lot.

I actually hate exercise, more then most people I know.
Once every 6 months I go for a run. Bill watched my last one from our bedroom window, he watched me run 75 metres down the road, turn around and run back.
3 minutes after embarking on my run I collapsed through the door struggling to breath and was met with my loving husband saying,
"What was that? It wasn't a run, it was more like 3 minutes of interpretive dance down the road I hope the neighbours saw that,"
I flipped him the bird "don't hate it coz you ain't it babe"

I salute all women, every single fu***ng one of us. The ones who change our minds about our runs after passing 3 houses and the ones who work their Queenly arses off at he gym.
Queen love.

Con 💗💁💅🏼👑

28/02/2016

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Yes! This.

03/02/2016

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Sitting here being amazing I started to think my relationship with my body.
I haven't always known how to love it.

In my younger years I actually used to throw up after eating. Now that my body is my queen, I'm so embarrassed that I would put her highness through that. 😞

Bulimia is,
This strange compulsion to eat loads really poor quality food as fast as you can, spaced perfectly with water to keep a fluid consistency that is easier to bring up.

Bulimia isn't,
Enjoyable. You can't really enjoy the feeling of eating while your plagued with this uncontrollable guilt.
The satisfaction of throwing your lunch up is probably the closest thing you get to enjoyment with bulimia.
And then no matter how many times you wash your hands you pretty much always smell a little bit like spew... Eww. I know.

I remember taking my top off before I did it to minimise the chances of getting vomit on my clothes, I bent over and lunged my fingers down my throat, I was violently gagging in a bid to get every fu***ng bit of food up and out.
Then I caught a glimpse of myself in the shower door reflection, t**s slapping against the toilet, head inside the bowl, I looked like a withdrawing drug addict, I wasn't even skinny, which made me feel like I couldn't pull the "eating disorder" card. I couldn't even succeed at the eating disorder that clearly had its claws in.
I was kind of chubs and for some reason I had this ingrained belief that if I lost 10kgs all my problems would just flush away with my half digested pasta spew.

My eating disorder convinced me that I didn't even deserve to have an eating disorder in order to stop me from getting help.

Eating disorders are sneaky little c***s.

Eventually self love creeped in, I was very lucky, I was struck mildly with an eating disorder, self love is strong and steady, it requires time and patience but.....

Self love always wins.

So today as I sit here bum on sand, loving myself sick, letting everyone enjoy the view of my incredibly strong, clever and sexy bod I want to pass on this message to anybody that isn't engulfed in self love or positive body image yet.

Start small, say one positive thing about your body every day. Your mind will follow your mouth.

You will get there, don't ever give up on a positive body image, even if you hate the way you look today and feel ashamed of your body today, you might not feel like that tomorrow. One day you might be a totally vain bitch like me who loves every inch of her divine queen body.

Self love always wins.

And don't forget to upload your bikini pics ☺️💗👑

05/12/2015

Such diverse beauty :) ❤️

This tugs at our heartstrings.

24/09/2015

Our next workshop is this Saturday Perth people!
Come along :)))

07/09/2015

“I wasn’t just spending my hours in blind servitude to the beauty standard. If that’s all you’re doing, that s**t will wear you down. It amazes me whenever anyone can apply that much discipline in service of the beauty standard, because ultimately it’s hollow – the beauty standard takes, and takes, and it doesn’t give back.”

So much good stuff in this article by Chris at Move And Be Free about our bodies, motivation, and the beauty standard.

Sometimes people seem to behave as if everyone in the world shares their own particular aesthetic sensibilities. And sometimes they believe their own aesthetic sensibilities are not influenced or...