I'm Clara Hammett and today I've come down to Cosmopolitan to have my photos taken to take part in something like this.
It's called My Body is Amazing and that isn't me as you can see because I've got short hair, that lady's got long hair.
But basically I'm going to be getting my kit off and posing naked for this magazine shoot.
It's all about having confidence in your body which obviously is what Fit State of Mind is about
and I think that this is a really great thing for me to do considering having the operation.
I am now back feeling confident in my body. It may not be what's considered to be perfect but I actually quite like it.
I'm with Harriet Hurley who's going to be writing the article that goes with the pictures I've had done today.
My body's amazing because and why is it so important do you think this article, this feature should I say?
It's really important because everybody has their body hang-ups. Everybody might think they have imperfections
but I think as you said, actually the reason your body is perfect is because it's your own.
Whatever you might have, you might have slightly bigger legs than you want or you might have spots that you don't want
but everybody has them and you can go on a journey to hopefully eventually realise that your body is perfect
because A, you're breathing, you're living, you can do these things that you might not be able to do.
Just to encourage people to know that while at the moment they might not be completely happy in their body,
they can go on a journey to get there.
So when I arrive today, what's the first thing that's going to happen?
Firstly, you'll get your hair and makeup done by the lovely ladies in there
and then we'll come out here and do the shoot, pose you up, get you suitably bit covered.
That's quite tricky because I've got to cover this. I've only got two hands.
And three bits.
Three bits need to be covered, two hands. Someone's going to lend me to the other hand.
Like a selfie stick, type of eyes.
Just a fake hand on me and I'm just going to come in and cover that spot.
That would be nice, wouldn't I?
It's quite an important feature for Cosmopolitan magazine, isn't it, as well?
Because I think there is that kind of general consensus that a lot of female magazines put this image out there
that women should look perfect and women should look this way.
And I guess that having normal people in a magazine, as it were, proud of their bodies
and being naked, basically, allows other women, I can imagine, to gain confidence from that, as well.
Absent in talking about what your body can do, the strength it has to get through,
maybe it's an illness, maybe it's something else.
Just to get to where you are at your happiest, I think, is really important.
So that's it. My nudie shoe is done. I managed to keep all of my bits and pieces covered. None of that.
But you can see the picture in Cosmopolitan very, very soon.
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