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By Alli Decker

Body Drama Has Balls

I just received a great book from author Nancy Redd, called Body Drama. The cover reads, “Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers” and as far as I can tell it covers everything and is definitely, well… real. At first, I was a little shocked to see the entire page of vaginas and to read a page dedicated solely to slang for breasts but I got over it. This generation of young girls has been raised in an especially casual, sexualized world and anything short of down and dirty would get tossed in the trash. Redd delivers a lot of great information for girls about what it’s like to live in their female bodies, and how to inhabit it with pride and care.

When I first got Body Drama I called my sister. She’s a school nurse and all-around girl power, rock-star and I wanted her to know about it. We both agreed it’s a must-have for school health offices. We also talked about how we hadn’t really seen a lot naked women growing up. (There’s a sentence you don’t write everyday.) My parents weren’t the walk-around-house-naked types. HBO got turned off when they went out, and there were no Playboys lying around. I think all of that’s good, of course, but at the same time, I had no other positive point of reference. When it comes to our bodies, as young women, we really need to feel safe and normal. I believe that comes from exposure to what real human beings look like… feeling safe and normal.
Here’s a great article at Healthline.com I agree with this writer: this is just the kind of book you want lying around for your daughter to just happen upon. She may giggle her way through it with her friends but she’ll get the message, and it’s an important one: We all have bodies, embrace yours.

I recently interviewed Nancy Redd about Body Drama and, by the way, she seems to be the real deal too.

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