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Archive for “November, 2007”
When I first saw that I was on the cover of the book, I was a little self conscious about what people would think but it took me a second to realize how excited I was about it because it was a huge reminder about how empowering this experience was!!
- Bianca
This Thanksgiving, I’m giving thanks to all of the incredible women who came to my book photo shoots in New York City. As I say in my book, the women photographed aren’t supermodels, but they’re super role models who dared to bare it all so young women can know what REAL beauty looks like. I still keep in touch with almost everyone, and here’s a note one of the women on the cover wrote to me a few weeks ago:
“When I first saw that I was on the cover of the book, I was a little self conscious about what people would think but it took me a second to realize how excited I was about it because it was a huge reminder about how empowering this experience was!! And, I am very glad knowing that by me taking part in Body Drama, I am contributing to young women out there, by letting them know its okay if you feel or look a little different.”
“Taking part in Body Drama really made me rethink the way that I think of myself because in my experience, I learned that I am not the only one who has image issues. Body Drama consists of typical image issues that a girl may worry about in her everyday life. To other people those things may not matter but to the individual it can be a really big factor in her how she portrays herself. What I see as my flaws, also make me a distinctive and unique person, and it is my “flaws” that set me apart from other people. Also growing up I hated my hair because it is very curly and hard to tame, and over time I learned to love it and wear it out wild!”
“I’ve since learned to embrace EVERY bump, hair and curve on my body!”
You totally rock, Bianca.
Check back later for more super role model stories, and thanks so much, ladies! Happy Thanksgiving!
“Demystifies female bodies and shows them as they really look: curvy, sometimes pimply and never perfect.”
Glamour magazine
“[Author Nancy Redd] majored in women’s studies at Harvard, won Miss Virginia 2003 and placed in the top ten at Miss America 2004. With a postfeminist résumé like that, it was probably inevitable that she would write Body Drama, a version of Our Bodies, Ourselves for the self-image-addled teen girls and young women of Generation Z.”
Tim Murphy for New York magazine
Whether the issue involves something at a body’s top or bottom, Redd embraces traditionally embarrassing or uncomfortable questions. Teens are her target audience, but women of all ages as well as teen boys can benefit from her ultimate goal: to show the many faces of normal.
Penelope Carrington for the Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Nancy Redd is like twenty kinds of awesome…”
Moe for Jezebel.com
“I would have loved to have a book, written by someone who presumably is completely confident about her own body (she won the swimsuit competition, after all), that addressed all the questions I had about my changing body…If I had a young teenage girl in my life, this would be at the top of my list of gifts for her.”
Catherine Price of Broadsheet on Salon.com
“[Body Drama is the] perfect post-Christmas present for any teenage girls you know.”
Jess McCabe of The F-Word
“While Body Drama is primarily aimed at teenage girls with questions about their bodies, I read it from cover to cover and learned a whole lot more than any 28-year-old grown woman should ever admit to not ever having known. I can’t even keep the book in my office because people keep coming by trying to ‘borrow’ it - it has recipes for easy facials, explains why you’re really not a freak for having an inverted nipple or cellulite, features her own personal body dramas, and has amazingly candid photos and advice about things that no one even wants to bring up to their doctor (let’s just say that if I had read the section about pubic ingrown hairs at the age of 12 I probably wouldn’t have been convinced that I had herpes even though I was as pure as the driven snow).”
Thembi of whatwouldthembido.blogspot.com
“Alexis and [Jennifer] both think [Body Drama] is terrific for teenage girls who are embarrassed to ask certain questions…Jennifer said that they were sitting upstairs and Alexis handed her a book with 36 names for vulva, which was the external part of a vagina. Nicknames like bird’s nest, cha cha, jelly, muff, rosebud etc. Jennifer said that below the names were 24 close ups of vulvas…Alexis said that the book was really good for answering questions about the body.”
The “Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer” Sirius Radio Show Blog
“Body Drama should be center stage in every young woman’s life. It will make you love every little thing about your body: your sags, your tags, your lumps, your bumps. It’s a book of liberation and it’s fun.”
Eve Ensler, Author of The Vagina Monologues
“In Body Drama, Nancy Redd combines the information of Dr. Ruth, the stylishness of Naomi Campbell, the vibe of your best friend, and photos you always wanted to see but were afraid to ask. An empowering, original, funny, and frank book, Body Drama is poised to become the modern girl’s Our Bodies, Ourselves.”
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, & the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism
“Perfecto. Body Drama is just what girlitas need today–a get-real guide with un-airbrushed photos that allows them to dialogue with their bodies on the most honest levels.”
Deborah Gregory, author, The Cheetah Girls series and Catwalk
“When I answered Nancy’s ad, I thought now here’s something that could change the course of life for someone else in the way I wished for. So I went. I had my body photographed. I talked about my insecurities. And you know what? It helped. It actually helped. I am so grateful to Nancy for creating this book and including me in it. I am exceedingly glad the book is now available, and I intend to buy copies to give out like free samples as well as hold dear my own copy, understanding that help can come in all forms, including paperback.”
-Nicki, music teacher who was photographed for Body Drama
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