this girl, she...
this girl, she sees all the other girls with their knee-high boots worn with skirts and skinny jeans and their oh my goodness how they make autumn look sexy looks. this girl, she wants a piece of that. a tiny piece is all she thinks she needs. but this girl, she is curvy and living inside a body that once held another body with the long not at all straight scar to prove it, and this girl is not feeling anywhere near sexy. no. this girl is a girl with legs that hold up her curvy self (that hold up this world some days). so this girl has known that these legs, her legs, will not find their way inside a pair of making autumn look a bit sexy, knee-high boots.
this girl is (sometimes) sitting inside wishing instead of being.
not today.
today, this girl wears these boots. these knee-high worn with a twirly dress boots.
yes.
today, she dances in her curvy body and lets go of the need to hold it all up. she lets go of the need to wish for someone other than herself.
today, this girl twirls inside the truth of who she is becoming.
seeing me in the moments.
Reader Comments (19)
look at you go! I so want a pair of funky tights, rocking boots and hip skirt .. I was just sayi ng the other day that look feels bad ass to me and I want to embody that but... alas this size14/16 body I am living in is finding it tough..
Thanks for the inspiration and I will see you around Vivienne's muse class!
Karen DD
Thank you Liz. I so relate to this. So, so, so much.
Also, rock on with your badass, sexy, curvy, supermama self.
I think I found the same boots! It's nice to fine a pair that fits us - isn't it?
What a perfect, perfect post. The idea that beauty or sexy only comes in size 8 or under is such bs. If I could change a few things about our country, in addition to the new icky Republican House, it would be our ridiculous ideas about size. In the meantime, thanks for sharing this!
When you find the beauty in you (which I can see so clearly), it pushes me to look for the beauty in me. Thank you.
Also: Those boots are kickass.
(also too: love the new site layout.)
Thank you so much for this post, it was just what I needed. Hurrah for your own gorgeous boots and I now need to go and do some twirling myself :)
beautiful
~ YAY ~ to your truth and sexy~autumn boots
and this curvy girl is twirling with you...
Like I said, authenticity looks good on you (and each of us!). xo
Beautiful. Courageous. Real.
Making friends with my curves too.
This girl....she's digging on that girl in the boots and the twirly dress.
Curves are good and bodies that grew another person....amazing.
xxox
After waking up with a serious case of the "my jeans don't fit; my calves are huge" blues, reading this post was just the reminder I needed that this is not a unique feeling but that I am unique in body, mind and spirit. Thank you for your wise words!
you're gorgeous! you must be diving right into Viv's class. this weekend I must catch up & get out there & take some self portraits! I was delighted to see that your book came in the mail this week. I haven't had a chance to get too far into it - again, the weekend is coming! but I have to say...my senses were overloaded as you described that moment in a coffee shop...listening to the music and wanting to dance. I wanted to be right there! these images lend to that same dancy feeling...love!
I love those boots :D
Enjoy your twirling xox
That is a twirl of great beauty.
I saw you twirling and it made me want to twirl too.
Two twirling girls, curvy bodies, tall boots, not-so-straight scars, weight of the world slowly released...
You are so inspirational and I have been reading your blog for quite a while now...don't think I ever made a comment before. Thank you for being~and being like a lot of the rest of us.!
This girl completely relates to how you are feeling, and is desperately hunting for a pair of boots, any boots, that will fit over her sturdy muscular calves. Twirl on my dear...
THIS GIRL is fo shizzle sexy and bad ass to BOOT ;)