About the AuthorJade Beall is a world-renowned Photographer specializing in truthful images of women to inspire feeling irreplaceably beautiful as a counter-balance to the airbrushed photo-shopped imagery that dominates mainstream media. Her recent work A Beautiful Body Project has touched 100,000's of women's lives and garnered global attention from media outlets including the BBC, The Huffington Post beyond. Jade's book series and media platform feature untouched photos of women, untouched. how do you read a history book effectively The Bodies of Mothers: A Beautiful Body Project
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful!By wiredweirdSometimes not pretty, but beautiful. Bearing a child is so demanding that, until modern medicine (and still in some places), it was a leading cause of death among women. If some of that physical demand shows in her body after living through it, that's OK. Her body, most visibly her skin, carries the record of that experience.These photos, usually semi-nude, honor mothers and the physical records of motherhood. Some appear as mothers-to-be, some with adult children, and some with their new infants - nursing, and with some of the messy bits that a romanticized vision would have skipped over. More than the images, though, each one in this collection wrote a few words about herself. Some chose poetic forms. More often, they wrote some autobiographical blurb about the experience and the feelings in brought out. I honestly can't think of a wider range of emotions captured between two covers: self-doubt, pride, pragmatic issues, the spiritual and generational connection, and lots more.I can't say how mothers themselves will think about this collection. I, as an outsider, learned a lot about the different experiences of motherhood - and about the different bodies shaped by that experience.-- wiredweird1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Very Beautiful BookBy CarltonTruly a must had book for any book collector , this was very eye opening and truly Beautiful, Phenomenal stories of all types of Mother's blessed with the most greatest gift of all giving birth to a child, and the becoming of Beautiful within your and Body, loving it forever. There are short stories of both young and old Mothers. Too me this is a Coffee table Book in my home, because I feel that everyone should at least open it, once its open most likely it will be read. A very Beautiful Book0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. StunningBy MargaritaI gave this book to myself as a postpartum gift. The stories and the images are so raw and so real. This book reminds you of the rollercoaster motherhood is, and works great as a coffee table book. I am so glad I purchased it. It would be an amazing gift for a new mom, a friend, your mother, or simply for yourself. Beautiful photographs as well.