a very nice follower showed me this article.  it’s really nice to see beautiful girls of all shapes, they really should show more…

anyway, read the article.  it is really amazing how people are reacting to the photo.

(via Meet “the Woman on p. 194”)

I’d loved this photo at first sight myself—we’d commissioned it for a story on feeling comfortable in your skin, and wanted a model who looked like she was. But even so, the letters blew me away: “the most amazing photograph I’ve ever seen in any women’s magazine,” wrote one reader in Pavo, Georgia. From another in Somerset, Massachusetts: “This beautiful woman has a real stomach and did I even see a few stretch marks? This is how my belly looks after giving birth to my two amazing kids! This photo made me want to shout from the rooftops.”