The Very Lovely Robyn Lawley

Have you met the very beautiful Robyn Lawley? Apparently she's a plus-size model, but really she's just bloody gorgeous.

She's Australian, she's 22 and a beautiful role model - she's a very normal, very healthy size 14-16. And she has the most beautiful, healthy attitude to her body.

In my book, much more beautiful than skin and bone, she's a real woman to be celebrated.

I read an interview with her in the new issue of Madison and I have to say, I am totally smitten. There's a cute video over yonder too of her working it for the cameras for the cover.

There needs to be more positive role models for all our daughters. A celebration of sizes.

"Normal size can be beautiful and you don’t have to be skinny or skeletal. There’s huge pressure for women to always be slim but I always find a little bit of curve is nicer to look at.”


Check out her Robyn Lawley Eats here. All sorts of foodie inspiration.

By the way - have you checked this out over on A Cup of Jo?

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Naked? In Front Of Your Kids? *GASP*

A couple of years ago I heard of a couple who never got naked in front of their kids. This isn't an urban legend. The children had never seen their dad naked, and according to the parents - they weren't ever going to either.

I was a little shocked  because - well nudity is a feature in our house. We're not nude all of the time, but we're not not nude all of the time.

But what I found most shocking was the organisation that this would entail.

I re-enacted it in my head. I would have to take all my clothes to the bathroom when I showered. I would have to close doors. I don't usually close doors. But above all, I wouldn't be able to stand at my wardrobe, in a definite state of undress, deciding what to wear for the day. This startled me. I usually walk around the house in the morning in various states of dress before finally getting my stuff together and getting it on. I thought about how small our house (smaller than a shoebox) and how difficult life would be if they never saw me naked.

I think it's good to be nude in front of my kids!

And this is part of the naked upside down breastfeeder talk. People, generally men, didn't like the idea that she was nude! And she was breastfeeding.

But for me, being nude is good. It's a positive! Being nude shows children real bodies. Bumps, lumps, hips and dips. Everything. I have thought about all those perfect images of women and men being presented perfectly in the media - airbrushed, over-styled, and after sitting in a make-up chair for a couple of hours. 

While my body isn't perfect it is pretty awesome. It's grown babies. It's birthed babies. It's fed babies. It can run up and down stairs. It does so much cool stuff. And my brain drives it. Pretty rad when you think about it.


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Aspirational: Here's Your Pep Talk

I've been thinking a lot lately, about the beauty in being unique.

Take for example if all houses were exact copies of the house next door, all the houses in the street were exactly the same. There's no beauty, it's just replicas. Carbon copies.

There is great joy in difference. In unique-ness.

And I think this applies to bodies. In particular female figures.

If all women looked the same, had the same figures, same bra size, same waist measurements, same same same, en masse - mirror image, no difference. Boring. Beyond boring. You'd be like a car, mass-produced, pick your year and your model and off you go.

Rejoice in your figure. No one else has it. Celebrate your flaws. No one else has the same. Revel in your unique-ness.

End of pep talk.