Valentines Day and Body Positivity at Lucy’s Boudoir

I recently came to the realization that I’m truly sick and tired of hating my body. Tired of comparing my past weight losses to my current weight gains. Looking at pictures wishing I could go back to who I was in them, knowing that girl wasn’t much happier than the one looking at the picture. I am tired of wishing I could wear the clothes of my thinner counterparts, knowing that even in my most “skinny girl” styles I was aiming for the even skinnier ones. Plus (and maybe this may be a bit morbid) I thought when I’m on my deathbed, will I feel sadness about never being able to really rock a bikini like I wanted or will I be angry that I spent so much time even thinking about it to begin with. All that tired finally boiled over and I took it the gram and got honest with myself, my family, friends, co-workers and over 1,800 complete strangers.

It’s interesting (and a bit affirming), life has a way of calling us to the carpet and after sharing my new outlook on my body with the world, that call came in the form of a modeling opportunity.

Lucy’s Boudoir changed my life (and I don’t say that mildly) when urged by LaJon, I walked in for a new bra a few months ago, only to realize that I’d been wearing the wrong size my entire life. In fact, I knew this was going to be a game changer when the sales associate came into my fitting room to help me put on the bra and grabbed my side boob, placed my boobies in “just right” and adjusted my straps herself. I’m used to being measured and thrown into a fitting room with a variety of bra’s, and having find the right fit on my own, and If you’re a woman with curves then you know that no two bras are made the same and regardless of your size they certainly don’t fit the same either. So the whole experience can be totally jarring.

After being fit for the best bra of my life, I became a Lucy’s Boudoir convert. Perhaps it was the compliments about how great I now looked in my clothes, or the disappearance of bra strap marks on my skin, maybe it was the co-worker who literally felt me up and asked to see this amazing new bra (while still on my body of course). But when Lucy’s Boudoir owner, Crystal asked me to come be the store model for their Valentines Day promo it was a chance for me to put my new body positivity beliefs into action.

Photo after photo made me feel more beautiful than the next and when it was all over I realized that THIS would be the moment that I look back on that reminds me how beautiful, worthy and ENOUGH I am.

Head over to Lucy’s Boudoir in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach for a special Valentines Day treat for yourself the special woman in your life. Gift wrapping, gift certificates and full lingerie services are available.