Empowering and Beautiful

I took maternity photos. It was something I had planned on doing when I first found out I was having a baby. Of course in the first few months I had imagined the baby’s father in the pictures with me, something to hang in our future home and cherish forever, but, as you know that vision changed and so did my opinion on maternity photos. I didn’t want to take them by myself. I would feel silly taking maternity photos as a single mother. I felt silly doing a lot of things as a soon to be single mother. But I changed my mind.

I am beyond fortunate enough to have amazing friends who are skilled at taking photos and we headed to Newport. At first I was self conscious because the gorgeous gown I was wearing was a tad bit revealing in the booty area where all my lovely tiger stripes were, but as soon as we started the “photo shoot” I felt beautiful. My friends were hyping me up which only made me more confident in my body, and I was really enjoying myself.

I’m usually self conscious about everything and hate being the center of attention, but there was something about the dress that made me feel so elegant and empowered. I didn’t care about the people walking by and watching, I didn’t care about the crowd of young teens that were also watching, I was focused on my baby and myself, and DAYUM did we look good.

I’m glad I did the maternity photo shoot, and captured my body in this amazing stage of life. They came out so perfect and I am beyond obsessed and grateful. Thank you to LC and Scarter for being amazing photographers, and shoutout to Ivy for feeding us goldfish when we needed a snack and drawing in the sand. You guys are absolutely amazing.

I felt empowered, I felt beautiful, and most importantly I felt genuinely happy.