Two female photographers strive to prove that mothers don’t have to look like a model to be beautiful. And that you don’t need to be ashamed of your body at all.
Take a photo in a swimsuit the day after giving birth and amaze everyone with your flawless figure. A fix idea for many women and expectant mothers. What to do – the media set the bar high. We look at the beauties on Instagram, then in the mirror … And here it is – the feeling of our own inferiority and even guilt. Guilt that you are just an ordinary earthly woman with stretch marks on the abdomen and chest, cellulite on the hips, folds at the waist.
Amy and Jenna Hobbs, the photography half-sisters, noticed this: many mothers are embarrassed to participate in family photo sessions. And if they do, they feel very tense. And then most of the pictures are discarded – all the frames in which at least some imperfections of their figure are noticeable are sent to the trash.
Amy and Jenna decided it was unfair. Now they use their talent not only for making money.
“It just breaks my heart: mothers, who are the center of the world for a child, prefer to be absent from family photographs, – sisters their discovery. “This is because, in their opinion, they don’t look good enough.”
Women launched a photo project “Maternal Beauty”. Jenna and Amy take pictures of their mothers in the most defenseless state – in their underwear and with their children. The pictures are not processed in any way. They are published in their original form on the project website.
Many ladies get nervous at the thought that they will have to appear in front of the lens in their underwear. But this is first. Next to the same as themselves, mothers, women are liberated. And to cheer them up, Amy and Jenna often throw off their shirts themselves.
“By the end of the day, no one is in a hurry to get dressed,” Amy laughs.
The sisters hope the project will make all women and mothers feel more comfortable in their own bodies.
“Maybe these are not the photos that you will hang on the wall. But they give women the opportunity to realize that they are beautiful, – says Jenna. – Motherhood changes a person, it also changes a woman’s body. It’s not good or bad, it’s just a life change, like all the changes that motherhood brings. “