chicknaggie

I did this for a couple of years in college as well. After having kids though, I'm not sure if my body is something people want to draw anymore! It really is an awesome experience. I loved seeing everyones artwork as well.

Edit to clarify: I'm definitely being sarcastic about my post baby body. I was not perfect before, but having children is a whirlwind of changes on your body that you just can't fathom until it happens. It's taken me a few years to be just as happy and comfortable with the new me post children as I was before. Part of the reason I modeled is because I really feel like the human body is an amazing piece of art, regardless of imperfections, and I loved seeing what the artists could do with so many different types of drawings with the human form. I'm at a place now (about 3 years after having my second child) where I am definitely comfortable enough in my own skin again, that I would model if I knew of someone/thing/department that needed models again. We're not in the same area that we were when I did it before though.

I logged in just to reply to you. You sound just like my mother whose life has been spent completely caring for others for the last 6 or 7 years. First her dad's health declined, then my sister got brain cancer, the her dad passed, now it's my grandmother she takes care off, and my brother was just diagnosed as a schizophrenic and has thrown another curve ball at our family. She has absorbed the blunt end of all of the family issues and basically has sacrificed her own health to take care of everyone and is now probably over 100 lbs over her healthy weight range.

If you have children please think of them. Even though we are grown we still love and need you. We need you to care about yourself and to make time to care about yourself. We worry that you're going to die young at this rate and are not ready to lose our mom.

If not, then your mother needs you to care about yourself enough to take care of you. ShE might outlive you otherwise and then who will care for her?

I have 2 young kids. I love food just like my mom but in the past 2 years have realized all the above. I dont want my children to worry about me likE I do my mom. Nor do I want my family worried about me because I have let my health go. The best thing I can do for them is take care of myself even if that means my kids have to find something else to do for 30 minutes a day while I do pinterest exercise at home, or it means that I quit eating convienently and figure out how to eat healthier and more convienentry at home.

Also figure out 1 at a time. For me it took having an exercise regime for 2 months before I finally felt like dieting with it. Start with the easiesta for you but I really felt like starting the exercise first helped making eating better more desirable.

Anyway this is my plea to you as someone who could be your 30 yr old daughter. I love you, and I need you to stick around. Your mom does too. Please find the value in making time for you to take care of you because we all need you too.

I was a nude female model through college, and I never had a guy hit on me (and I looked GOOD then....) There's not much "sexuality" in nude modelling. The artists that are there usually are fairly serious and you're more like a basket of fruit to them then a nude person.