There is a feeling of peaceful acceptance. There's a sense of letting go of the fight. There is an opening up to the inevitable, for her, there can be no change without expression and acceptance of her feelings and situation. Posing with the picture was a way for me to confront this as well. Several months before I photographed Cathy, a man she knew tried to rape her.
Fat women are real women.
We are the forgotten goddesses of softness and sensuality. I believe that fat women are uniquely nurturing and powerful. However, in a society obsessed with being thin, we goddesses have been cast aside. It is for this reason that I have posed. I want to be a reminder to our culture that beauty exists in many forms.