'Underneath We Are Women' is an amazing photo book which fights the stereotypes of women's beauty.
Created by Australian photographer Amy D Herrman, the book's main goal is 'to educate thousands' by featuring ‘100 women, 100 bodies, 100 stories’ and showing their endless diversity. In the book, there are no judgments and no opinions of others - just honest photography. If you like this idea, help Amy raise money through Kickstarter so she could print 400 copies of the book!
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Physical defects are nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. And this woman looks wonderful in spite of it all.
I didn't even notice she had a missing forearm until my second or third look. I was like, why is she remarkable? She's gorgeous. Which of course is the entire point of this entire link. Well done. I shall now slap myself in the face.
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have. I have volunteered in a cancer hospital for 4 years now.... I see strength and courage all around. God bless those who fight the battle. <3
I can relate to this one... my scars are on my thighs too. But I've gone almost 6 months without putting any more on! (: she's beautiful!
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift EVERY time. She is the ultimate of age with grace.
Guess what? Women get hair in new places during puberty, just like men. It's not nasty, it's natural
All bodies are beautiful, YOU are the sterotype for shaming her for enjoying the gym, buying fit, muscular, whatever.
I kinda wish i could go au natural ...but im part grrek so if i left those pit bushes go i would look like i had two hobbits in a headlock.
So tired of these politically correct posts. As an average looking guy I have no problem with the fact that most people would prefer to look at underwear pictures of a male model with a nice symmetric, square face and a well proportioned body, and not at mine. So what. The fact that someone won the genetic lottery does not make them a more valuable human being. In this day and age, wobbling fat is not beautiful for most people. Get over it.
Im 67 yr old female. When younger i had a slim attractive body. I liked how i look. But now i dont even like seeing my body after shower so why kn earth would anyone else want to see my flab and wrinkles? I agree with you.
Marlene, well imagine being overweight since seven and trying to change it for years until developing an eating disorder all because I wanted to look "beautiful", because when I was little, these pictures WEREN'T around. You were slim and attractive. Congrats. Not all of us are that lucky and I am sick of feeling like shit for what I look like.
I actually thought my comment would be voted down, but apparently I struck a nerve. Thanks to all who agreed.
Wrinkles are perfect. Fat beyond a certain level is not. Yes, there are many
Body types but severe obesity only rarly is an unchangable fate.
you are right. i don't like my fat and i know most people wouldn't want to look at it, why would they. but you know what? most women feel they look bad compared to these perfect models. when we see that other women also have some flaws, it helps us. we feel normal. we feel we can have these flaws and be cool about them. it really helps. some delicate ones may even stop thinking about self harm. so i thank these women for showing their bodies :)
good for you for not caring about what other people look like! but guess what, there are girls out there who struggle with their bodies..
As a guy, you have been taught that your value is in your earning capacity, your strength, your skills etc. As a woman, I have been taught that if I don't look good I have no value. As a guy, I'm not sure that you should comment on what women need to help fight generations of conditioning that tell us that the only thing that makes us worthwhile is a f*ckable body.
lol
Also Randy, try to think of a male actor who you saw half naked or partially naked on screen or in any other way, and people on the street, playing football, swimming... I bet you see a lot of normal looking guys with some fat, right? Try to show me ONE actress that stripped to her underwear on screen and wasn't perfect.
But no one asked you. These women didn't do This shoot for your approval. If you didn't want to see it, why did you look? Take your male prerogative and shove it
Coming from a male d bag, using terms he heard but no comprehends. Duh you re so boring randy!I say bravo gorgeous!!!
Thank you Randy. I'm of a certain age and I really do not want my body type flaunted as being OK. I'd rather be slim and fit, but age does have a way with wrinkles and sagging skin. I really enjoy looking at young fit pretty models. I don't want to see obese women or men modelling. There is no pleasure in that
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Exactly. This "fat and proud" attitude is dangerous and sets a bad example. I'm tired of the excuses made by those who choose to not control their caloric intake. It's a simple concept and inescapable truth. There were no fat Jews at Auschwitz.
I don't think that in order to feel good about ourselves we have to pose in front of the cameras and show the whole world our underwear or lack of it. I think we will all move to higher grounds when we stop manipulating sex and sexuality in order to define who we really are. The human being is a beautiful array of incredible gifts and our body is just one of them.
Beautifully phrased. Couldn't be summed up in a better way
People who body-shame or otherwise judge anyone need to get a life. They're usually so upset with their own image, or something in their life, that they feel the need to project hate on someone else.
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We are free to judge. You want to be the dictator of good thinking ? There are opinions, yours, and others. You have to accept it. Personnaly, my opinion is that fat people are not beautiful. Fat is not a fatality, tey can change, but they are too lazy to hit the gym and eat less. And for hairy armpit, it's disgusting. We are in 2016 not at the cave age.
So I assume you regularly shave your armpits and so do your male friends.
What about people that are fat because of some illness? They cannot "eat less". I have a classmate like this, and she doesn't eat bread and fast food and she is still fat. She won't say what she has because she is ashamed but whatever.
So tired of these politically correct posts. As an average looking guy I have no problem with the fact that most people would prefer to look at underwear pictures of a male model with a nice symmetric, square face and a well proportioned body, and not at mine. So what. The fact that someone won the genetic lottery does not make them a more valuable human being. In this day and age, wobbling fat is not beautiful for most people. Get over it.
Im 67 yr old female. When younger i had a slim attractive body. I liked how i look. But now i dont even like seeing my body after shower so why kn earth would anyone else want to see my flab and wrinkles? I agree with you.
Marlene, well imagine being overweight since seven and trying to change it for years until developing an eating disorder all because I wanted to look "beautiful", because when I was little, these pictures WEREN'T around. You were slim and attractive. Congrats. Not all of us are that lucky and I am sick of feeling like shit for what I look like.
I actually thought my comment would be voted down, but apparently I struck a nerve. Thanks to all who agreed.
Wrinkles are perfect. Fat beyond a certain level is not. Yes, there are many
Body types but severe obesity only rarly is an unchangable fate.
you are right. i don't like my fat and i know most people wouldn't want to look at it, why would they. but you know what? most women feel they look bad compared to these perfect models. when we see that other women also have some flaws, it helps us. we feel normal. we feel we can have these flaws and be cool about them. it really helps. some delicate ones may even stop thinking about self harm. so i thank these women for showing their bodies :)
good for you for not caring about what other people look like! but guess what, there are girls out there who struggle with their bodies..
As a guy, you have been taught that your value is in your earning capacity, your strength, your skills etc. As a woman, I have been taught that if I don't look good I have no value. As a guy, I'm not sure that you should comment on what women need to help fight generations of conditioning that tell us that the only thing that makes us worthwhile is a f*ckable body.
lol
Also Randy, try to think of a male actor who you saw half naked or partially naked on screen or in any other way, and people on the street, playing football, swimming... I bet you see a lot of normal looking guys with some fat, right? Try to show me ONE actress that stripped to her underwear on screen and wasn't perfect.
But no one asked you. These women didn't do This shoot for your approval. If you didn't want to see it, why did you look? Take your male prerogative and shove it
Coming from a male d bag, using terms he heard but no comprehends. Duh you re so boring randy!I say bravo gorgeous!!!
Thank you Randy. I'm of a certain age and I really do not want my body type flaunted as being OK. I'd rather be slim and fit, but age does have a way with wrinkles and sagging skin. I really enjoy looking at young fit pretty models. I don't want to see obese women or men modelling. There is no pleasure in that
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Exactly. This "fat and proud" attitude is dangerous and sets a bad example. I'm tired of the excuses made by those who choose to not control their caloric intake. It's a simple concept and inescapable truth. There were no fat Jews at Auschwitz.
I don't think that in order to feel good about ourselves we have to pose in front of the cameras and show the whole world our underwear or lack of it. I think we will all move to higher grounds when we stop manipulating sex and sexuality in order to define who we really are. The human being is a beautiful array of incredible gifts and our body is just one of them.
Beautifully phrased. Couldn't be summed up in a better way
People who body-shame or otherwise judge anyone need to get a life. They're usually so upset with their own image, or something in their life, that they feel the need to project hate on someone else.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
We are free to judge. You want to be the dictator of good thinking ? There are opinions, yours, and others. You have to accept it. Personnaly, my opinion is that fat people are not beautiful. Fat is not a fatality, tey can change, but they are too lazy to hit the gym and eat less. And for hairy armpit, it's disgusting. We are in 2016 not at the cave age.
So I assume you regularly shave your armpits and so do your male friends.
What about people that are fat because of some illness? They cannot "eat less". I have a classmate like this, and she doesn't eat bread and fast food and she is still fat. She won't say what she has because she is ashamed but whatever.