Credits: Kit: Ponytails Designs: June Bride
Temp: Seatrout Scraps: Summer Bytes part 3 (retired)
Alpha: Seatrout Scraps: Familiar places
Photo taken of me by Urban Utopia Photography
Journaling says: When I think about one of the hardest struggles I have had in life aside from my depression, which I feel goes hand in hand with this issue, it would be struggling with low self esteem. When I look in the mirror I don’t typically like the person I see staring back at me. I stare into those big blue eyes and I feel the soul of a very sad person. A person I don’t like looking at. I always see a very ugly girl, a girl with ugly stretch marks, a pouchy tummy from birthing five children, the pouch that will never go away aside from plastic surgery, a girl with saggy breasts and lets face it, fat! It’s hard to see past those things when you look in the mirror because a mirror doesn’t see us the way other people do. It wasn’t until my friend at Urban Utopia Photography convinced me to do a boudoir session as a gift to my husband for Father’s Day that I received a gift for myself as well. Inside my email I found my photos waiting for me, photos that made me break down in tears seeing “me” for the first time through someone else’s eyes, and each day I look at those photos and know that I am a beautiful woman and I shouldn’t be afraid to believe that, because a photo never lies! ~K