Y’all, y’all, omg, y’all, a friend of mine sent me a link to this image and it is so gorgeous!
Insanely awesome photo of a naked fat woman here!
Be aware, it is at a blog called Sexoteric – so it isn’t worksafe and if you frown on nudity this isn’t the link for you.
Did you check it out? Are you back? I’m not sure what strikes me so deeply about this photo. It might be her expression. It might be the magical early morning (probably helped with some Photoshop, I acknowledge this) lighting.
Or it might just be that electric feeling of recognizing a nude body that LOOKS LIKE MINE. Those boobs are my boobs and those fleshy upper arms and the hips and butt that are all BOOM I AM HERE. I think I am bigger than this woman but our basic shapes seem similar and all the particulars that show up when I look in the mirror….
Ha, this is what happens when we spend our lives surrounded my images of bodies that do not look like us. That’s true for fat people, for people of color, for people who have disabilities. You go along looking at other bodies and, if you are lucky, still manage to develop a positive relationship with your own and if you are really, REALLY lucky you find a community like Fatshionista where you can see pictures of fatties of all sizes and shapes wearing all sorts of clothes, but still, you find a picture that looks like you and something really zings right into the middle of your gut.
And it is awesome.
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This reminds me of how the other night I walked by a mirror while naked and noticed my hip dimples and thought they looked cute, which was a nice surprise.
OH MY GOD, her figure is GORGEOUS!
I really mean it. As soon as I saw the picture I thought she had exactly the same body of the Venus of Willendorf. And that is very powerful. That is beauty and power and sexuality, and I’m so glad I can see these things in any kind of body, not necessarily the one media throws to our faces like they were merengue pies.
That is exactly how I felt when I saw the nude cover photo that Beth Ditto did!
Hey, she looks just like me! And she is hot! And it’s okay!
hot hot HOT!!
LOVE!
I think what makes this photo, apart from her facial expression, is the leaf. It’s like a commentary on classical art with its classical fig leaves, and a commentary on the idea of fig leaves themselves — a way of covering natural nudity with a natural product, which is pretty much totally unnatural. Bigger lady, bigger leaf… which just draws attention to how silly the idea of covering up really is.
Okay, rambling. But! SHE! Is awesome. And! The photographer. Rules. Outstanding shot. Thank you for sharing this!
She is really cute!
She is absolutely beautiful, like a Goddess of the earth. My body is much similar to hers. If only I had such confidence and grace that emanates from this portrait!
She’s adorable, gorgeous, sensual… and yes, I had the thought “she looks like ME!”
Very groovy! I just got back from NAAFA, where I modeled lingerie! If you want to see pics of that follow the link.
I have known Sabine’s photos for years, it is very surreal to find an article about one of her photos on a US-blog.
I was trying to find more photos of that model, but I seem to have mislaid my links, sorry. But Sabine’s photos are worth checking out (if you are NOT at work. Some are erotic/fetish, nothing violent AFAIK though), because they are always colourful and always telling a story. Google for Sabine Schoenberger. I am not her or anything, I just love her work.
The other day I agreed to model for half-nudes/fetish/whatever. I really really prefer being behind the camera, but I really really want to tackle this whole body issue for me. Now I need a big fig leaf as well.
I’m not crazy about this picture. The thing that I first noticed is the lighting glowy eraser-of-cellulite-and-other-perceived-flaws effect. I have nothing against Photoshopping pictures, but this trick is obvious and passé and if the beauty of a fat figure – as it is – was the point, there was no need for such a non-subtle effect.
The second issue I have is that once again a fat woman is shown naked on a erotic site and as one reader confirmed, the model does fetish photography. A lovely fat lady doing erotic and fetish modeling – how rare. yawn.
I would be genuinely surprised and pleased at the image of a fat woman, naked or not, in a context in which fat women don’t exist and are haven’t been pigeon-holed into. Like a skin care ad that is not waving a gimmicky “all women are beautiful” self-serving flag. That picture in that magazine that one with the ubiquitous skinny girl posing this is that way – that pic replaced by a fat woman without making it into a ‘look we’re doing fat women’ thing. A random photographer’s muse who has not been fetishized for once. Something routine would be truly different, but not this sort of image…
Chris, you aren’t required to like it but I think you are missing the point – which is simply that seeing a representation that looks like your body is a very powerful thing.
As for the rest, early morning light does that. I don;t think it is all Photoshop. Also, I am getting tired of the idea that if a fat woman isn’t COVERED with cellulite then it must be ’shopped. Her body looks like mine in that regard, too – minimal cellulite.
The impression I am getting of the rest of the photographer’s work is that fat isnt the fetish – it just happens to be fat women in the photos centered on other fetishes. And I DO find that refreshing as fetish photography generally features only rail thin women.
I see a problem with fat-fetish photos, because those often depict fat women as freaks. But why should fat women not be shown as erotic and desirable? I don’t think this is a fat-fetish picture, it could have been any woman of any weight on that photo and *that* is why I like it. (note to self: make more photos like that with models like that)
And cellulite seriously has nothing to do with weight. I know a young woman who looks a bit slimmer than the model on this photo, and I have seen her completely naked, and she has wonderful skin that seems to shine from within, no trace of cellulite.
Mind y ou, Skree, that skin can shine beautifully with or without cellulite. It’s natural and mostly genetic, so why not embrace it like all other beautiful features of the human body? ^^