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Cute girl of the day is Gabourey Sidibe!

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"You're so brave for posting these photos." No. I am not brave for posting these photos. I am existing. I am taking up space. I am uncovering a body that possesses features society says are better left concealed. There is nothing brave about having a body. We all have one. The fact that people will think it's brave for me to show mine says less about me and more about the world in which we live.

My size 10 body. My 34DDD breasts. My tummy rolls. My broad shoulders. My arm fat. My cellulite. My stretch marks. Here they are. They are part of what makes me me. They are as essential to who I am in this moment as my tattoos and purple hair. They tell the story of daily morning coffees with extra cream, lazy nights in with my husband eating pizza and watching TV, an ongoing battle with PCOS, and a preference for roller blading over hitting the gym. They are features that are almost a carbon copy of my nana, who passed away but somehow lives on in the genetics staring back at me in the mirror each morning. They are the things I was told I should hate - and I did. I started that inner dialogue as a smaller, thinner, younger me and cultivated it into a mental disorder known as BDD. And as the number on the scale grew and girth of my thighs no longer fit into the same size pants as they did in high school, I convinced myself I was not worthy of love in this current body - not from others, not from myself. So no, I am not brave for posting these photos. I am brave for trying to love myself despite a world and an inner voice that tells me every single minute of everything single hour of every single damn fucking day that I shouldn't. 

More photos from this set on the blog. 

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Body hate free

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New look up on the blog :) 

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Guess what I did? :o

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I did a thing today. It's swollen atm but I couldn't wait to show off my body acceptance piece done by artist Rita Zagars at Tyler Wolf Tattoo in Seattle.

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Please follow my blog www.thetatianalee.com

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There's only one thing I'm certain of these days: the world needs art. Raw, honest, emotional, in-your-face art. Any kind of art. All kinds of art. We need it now. It's a type of resistance, creating when the world would have us believe we're powerless and broken. That fear, that anger, that confusion and pain. Feel it and then build it, paint it, write it, photograph it, draw it, rinse, repeat. Bear witness through your mediums. Rise up and get to work. 

More of Samantha’s work

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