Women posed in their underwear: None of us have to be alone in this struggle. Kierra Mellenthin spends her days looking at bodies and thinking about beauty. As a photographer, it comes with the territory. With the new year, Kierra wanted to find a way to break down the walls with which society surrounds the idea of beauty. In a firestorm of creativity, just six days after her original idea was born, she was gathered together with volunteers between the ages of twenty and forty-seven.
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Women of every shape and size, to talk about how beauty is perceived and how it has impacted their lives.
She called it ‘The Worthy Project’.
Kierra asked the women to write down on a piece of paper something that was said to them or a memory of something they experienced that made them feel unworthy.
Portraits were then taken of the women as they held up and shared their vulnerable memories.
Seeing these portraits, it’s impossible to deny just how hard society is on women — and our bodies and self-esteem.
There’s no denying the fact that if you are a woman in possession of a body (a.k.a. every woman) there are going to be people who feel it is their right to tell you how that body should look, what that body should do, and what they think of something that should be NONE of their business.
Even though I know how hard society is on women, I scrolled through Kierra’s images and felt my eyes well with tears.
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