Celebrating Motherhood and Every Body with Jade Beall To see...

Celebrating Motherhood and Every Body with Jade Beall

To see more of Jade’s photography, follow @jadebeallphotography on Instagram. This post is celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2016.

“#MyStory is about truthfully photographing women to remind them that they are beautiful, just the way they are, without making them into someone other than themselves.” —Jade Beall (@jadebeallphotography), photographer, who took this photo of a nursing mom in Tucson, Arizona.

“It all started when I was pregnant, and I wanted to be that bounce-back mother. I gained more weight than I was supposed to, I gave birth and the weight barely came off. Five weeks into my new motherhood, I realized I should take a photo, because I wanted to expand my portfolio to add more body diversity. I stood — cellulite, flab, everything — breast-feeding my 5-week-old son. Now, I spend my time photographing women, facilitating them feeling beautiful in their own skin.

“The women that come to me are definitely on a path for self-love. They’re done with feeling ‘less than,’ unworthy of being called beautiful. As soon as they stand on my backdrop, something shifts. Afterwards, 90 percent of the time women say, ‘That felt so good. I don’t even need to see the photos.’”

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