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Featured Actionist : Stacey Politi
Eve's Rib Clothing (http://www.evesribclothing.com/)
was created by Stacey Politi as a way to love
herself and those around her. It is clothing
dedicated to promoting positive body image in
girls and women while donating a part of the
proceeds to the National Eating Disorders
Association (NEDA). For as long as she can
remember, Stacey has been frustrated with the
narrow standards of beauty imposed on girls and
women--knowing that the entire Western world was
just a bit too much to conquer, she decided to
start small. "It was a holiday, we had already
finished dinner and dessert, yet all the women in
my family stood around the table picking at the
food, while picking at themselves," Stacey
remembers. While Stacey participated in this
family tradition, she envisioned herself walking
around with "love your body already" stamped
across her forehead, helping to remind her and
others of their beauty. Since tattoos are painful,
Stacey produced shirts with these same sayings,
giving women sassy, comfortable clothing while
making a generous donation to the National Eating
Disorders Association.
Since a young age, Stacey has struggled with
negative body image and now feels that it isn't
her appearance that needs changing, but they way
in which she comprehends her beauty. Stacey says,
"It’s not about my size, it's about what I see,
and it's not about what I look like, it's about
what I feel like. I could have been voted the most
beautiful woman in the world and my only thought
would be that the world had gone mad."
Her mission is not to work towards women loving
themselves individually as they are. In order to
carry this out, Stacey has made sure to have Eve's
Rib Clothing comes in a range of sizes to help
every woman feel comfortable in her own
skin--allowing women everywhere to point out that
"obsessing over pounds is for British bankers,"
that "you should only go Hungary, when you're in
Budapest," and that we should all "love our bodies
already!" Eve's Rib is about building a community
for change by empowering individual women to
transform their own feelings towards themselves.
Today, Stacey is going to work to love her body
and hopes that you can too.
To learn more about Eve’s Rib please visit http://www.loveyourbodyalready.com/
or e-mail Stacey directly at stacey@evesribclothing.com. |
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