When I first started thinking about doing a boudoir shoot I felt like I had to put in extra effort into eating a certain way and working out extra because I didn’t want to feel like I wasn’t my best in photos. It’s easy to have personal doubts about yourself and feel like you need to change something before you can do something else.

But like many women as my session date got closer and closer I realized that I didn’t put in all that extra effort that I said I was going to. But talking with Kristen I also realized that was okay and that the way I looked, that my body at that moment was fine and that helped change my mindset before the session.

I started to say tell myself that no matter how the photos turned out they were me. Still a little nervous of course, but I was ready. And seeing the results…well I was blown away. I look at them and it’s hard to believe that is me!

It really made me realize how hard on myself I really am and that I need to learn to love my body and not wish it were more like fitness women followed on IG, because let’s face it just like posting a selfie you’re going to post the best one the most flattering one. And sometimes I think we forget that as women we don’t see the 100 other photos they took to get the ONE.

This whole experience taught me so much about myself. Going in I would have never considered myself as “sexy” but I am.

And it’s crazy how “being sexy” seemed to come so much more naturally than I thought.

Although, I do have to give Kristen A LOT of credit for that. I felt 100% comfortable with her and she walks you thought it all so it’s easy. I guess what I’m trying to say is that having this experience helped me to realize that there was so more more to me than what I seemed to believe on a normal day to day basis. And now I have some super sexy, gorgeous images to always remind me that.