”I love this book! It puts loving (and knowing) your body into words and pictures — you’ll find out yours isn’t so different after all. Body Drama has the answers you want to the questions you don’t know how to ask. Fun and frank, like talking to a good friend who knows absolutely everything and is willing to dish.”
Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW)

“This honest, funny, and lucidly-written book is the perfect antidote to a culture constantly teaching young women to angst about their bodies. This liberating call speaks directly to the worries and concerns that most of us have, offering a perspective and solutions that will help girls and young women figure out what REALLY matters to them. And maybe the world will be that much saner as a result.”
Judy Norsigian, Executive Director of Our Bodies Ourselves and co-author of “Our Bodies, Ourselves”

“Body Drama…should be on the shelf of every family, school, and doctor in America.”
Nancy Brown, PhD, professor of Adolescent Sexuality at Stanford University, senior research associate at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) Research Institute.

“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.”
— Alli Decker for Ypulse.com, the source for daily news and commentary on Generation Y for media and marketing professionals

“Today’s girls need body role models. They need real images…they need reality checks and reassurance. They need this book. By proudly presenting what real women actually look like and what women’s bodies naturally go through, Body Drama takes a major stride toward eradicating the dislike and embarrassment that women have learned to feel about their bodies. Groundbreaking!”
from the foreword by Dr. Angela Diaz, director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, which is the largest health center for adolescents in America

“Since I started this job of reviewing about a year and a half ago, I’ve had the privilege of reading a number of self-help type books geared towards girls and women and their bodies. I have to admit that none have been as comprehensive, helpful, and realistic as Body Drama. As an adult, and a married woman with two children, I still found this book to be extremely helpful, and even discovered information that I hadn’t previously known. Kudos to Ms. Redd for such an informative read. This one is a winner!”
Jennifer Wardrip of TeensReadToo.com

“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