Revelist/Marianne Espinosa The one question I constantly get asked is how I became comfortable and confident in my own body.  Although I still struggle with fully accepting my body, it’s motivational to know that my journey can inspire others. The best advice I’ve learned is that you have to make the conscious decision to want to like yourself. You have to decide, commit, and put in work.  My journey started five years ago and to this day I still have to work on it. There is no end goal — just new challenges and a freer existence with every threshold I pass.   To do something like this nude shoot, with no clothes whatsoever, I imagined I would have to work up to it mentally and emotionally. But it was more of a plunge, just an idea that came up and that I said yes to. Today is as good a day as any to really test my confidence, I thought.  I called two friends who are also on self-love journeys to take the plunge with me. Wearing nothing but glitter, we exposed our deepest insecurities — and it turned into a celebration. Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Watching her become more confident with every click of the camera was amazing. Soft-spoken and quiet, she stayed for the rest of the shoot, which went on for hours. She reminded us that you don’t have to have 50,000 Instagram fans be a body-positive icon. You can do it for yourself, for your best friend, your sister, your mom… we’re all beauty and style influencers to someone.  Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa “When I was in high school, I remember sitting cross-legged at the pool in a bikini. My guy friend reached over and lightly slapped my thigh to get my attention. He said, ‘Whoa look at your leg! It ripples!’ As he continued making my thigh ‘ripple,’ I slumped into an internal hole,” she told us.
Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa That last word above is important. Brittany’s entire aura is like one big smile — even when she’s not smiling and wearing the inkiest black lipstick, she looks like the friendliest person in the room. She lives life to the fullest and is an inspiration to everyone in this office. The reason she’s such a skilled producer is that she makes our video guests comfortable and at home in a weird camera situation; she’s able to do that because she’s so comfortable and at peace with herself.  Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa I haven’t overcome the fear of exposing my least favorite body part to millions. But I’m more comfortable with it today than I was before this shoot, and I hope that in time, I’ll look back at these photos and be even more comfortable with the sight of who I am. This wasn’t a final step, but it was a big one. Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa

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title: “We Posed In Nothing But Glitter To Prove All Bodies Should Be Celebrated” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-03” author: “Gary Howard”

Revelist/Marianne Espinosa The one question I constantly get asked is how I became comfortable and confident in my own body.  Although I still struggle with fully accepting my body, it’s motivational to know that my journey can inspire others. The best advice I’ve learned is that you have to make the conscious decision to want to like yourself. You have to decide, commit, and put in work.  My journey started five years ago and to this day I still have to work on it. There is no end goal — just new challenges and a freer existence with every threshold I pass.   To do something like this nude shoot, with no clothes whatsoever, I imagined I would have to work up to it mentally and emotionally. But it was more of a plunge, just an idea that came up and that I said yes to. Today is as good a day as any to really test my confidence, I thought.  I called two friends who are also on self-love journeys to take the plunge with me. Wearing nothing but glitter, we exposed our deepest insecurities — and it turned into a celebration. Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Watching her become more confident with every click of the camera was amazing. Soft-spoken and quiet, she stayed for the rest of the shoot, which went on for hours. She reminded us that you don’t have to have 50,000 Instagram fans be a body-positive icon. You can do it for yourself, for your best friend, your sister, your mom… we’re all beauty and style influencers to someone.  Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa “When I was in high school, I remember sitting cross-legged at the pool in a bikini. My guy friend reached over and lightly slapped my thigh to get my attention. He said, ‘Whoa look at your leg! It ripples!’ As he continued making my thigh ‘ripple,’ I slumped into an internal hole,” she told us.
Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa That last word above is important. Brittany’s entire aura is like one big smile — even when she’s not smiling and wearing the inkiest black lipstick, she looks like the friendliest person in the room. She lives life to the fullest and is an inspiration to everyone in this office. The reason she’s such a skilled producer is that she makes our video guests comfortable and at home in a weird camera situation; she’s able to do that because she’s so comfortable and at peace with herself.  Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa I haven’t overcome the fear of exposing my least favorite body part to millions. But I’m more comfortable with it today than I was before this shoot, and I hope that in time, I’ll look back at these photos and be even more comfortable with the sight of who I am. This wasn’t a final step, but it was a big one. Photographer: Marianne Espinosa Photographer: Marianne Espinosa

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