"This is really about women and girls accepting their bodies," she explains. You look at magazines and think, That looks good on that skinny girl, but it doesn't look like that on me," she says.Īfter posing, de Cadenet was pleasantly surprised by the results. "I see how some of my daughter's friends struggle with their bodies. (Her eldest is 18-year-old model Atlanta de Cadenet.)
This shoot, as well as launching a Website this month devoted to women's issues, is a very personal project for the 37-year-old mother of three. Marc jokes that no matter what's in the collection, even if it's for curvy women, I'm still busting out." Roland Mouret and Marc Jacobs send me the big-girl sizes, but other than that it's slim pickings," she says. "I get frustrated that I can't find clothes to fit from designers I love. Since having twins four years ago, I'm now super curvy. "The reason I wanted to do this story is that I'm challenged with my physicality," says photographer Amanda de Cadenet. "I've always been the curviest girl."-Amanda de Cadenet, Photographer AMANDA DE CADENET "You'll never be thin enough, blonde enough, black enough. There needs to be a greater acceptance individually and collectively or nothing's ever going to change," she says. "Women are the harshest critics of other women. "There are times when we're at our weakest. I don't let things bother me,'" she continues. "I'm not going to lie and say, 'Oh, I'm so secure in who I am. I'm 10 years heavier and I'm married," says Bryant, who wed stuntman Dave Pope in June 2008. With age came a few pounds and, for Bryant, peace of mind. "But I was the same weight as always," says Bryant. Then came a move to Hollywood, where guys would suggest she should eat a cheeseburger. "Some of them had eating disorders because of pressure from their own mothers to be thin." The psychological yo-yoing only continued after she began modeling at 19 and was told that her athletic build was too big. "These girls were telling me my body was amazing, which made me feel okay," she says, though not for the healthiest of reasons. I wore my cousin's hand-me-downs - who was a boy."Ī scholarship to a prestigious Connecticut boarding school reshaped her perception. My 'best friend' would tell me I looked like a boy. Though her svelte form might make women jealous now, Joy Bryant loathed her body when she was growing up in the South Bronx. "You'll never be thin enough, blonde enough, black enough." -Joy Bryant JOY BRYANT I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, 'I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now.'" "I think the message is embrace your curves and who you are. "It's definitely scary, but it's very liberating," she says. This time around, Kardashian is much happier. Do it and you'll have these beautiful pictures to look at when you're my age." "Go for it," she recalls her mother saying. I was uncomfortable," she remembers, though at the time she was excited. And she didn't love her 2007 Playboy cover. "A good six months have to go by before I'll leave the lights on for a boyfriend," she says. I'm a firm believer that you should be your best you." "I'm trying to eat better - which is a struggle. But accepting that just empowers me," she says. Now she's learned to be happy with her looks.
Then came Salma Hayek and Jennifer Lopez. "Those became the healthy bodies to look up to. Growing up in Los Angeles surrounded by blonde California girls, the five-foot-two-and-a-half-inch brunette found solace in the vintage images of Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch tacked on her wall. I would go to bed and pray, 'Please, Lord, don't let my boobs grow any bigger,'" remembers Kardashian. "I was wearing a C cup by the time I was 11. But they used to be nothing but a source of tears. "My butt is probably not as big as you might think, because I have small legs and a small waist, which makes it appear bigger."Įven so, her curves helped rocket the 29-year-old into a one-woman multimillion-dollar earning industry. "I don't get why everyone is always going on about my butt. "The message is embrace your curves and who you are." -Kim Kardashian KIM KARDASHIAN
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