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