Trusting someone with your nakedness is one of the hardest things in the world to do. That kind of vulnerability goes all the way through, from your bare skin right down to your bones and your heart and your head. That kind of vulnerability can leave you dead, if you are not careful. You are naked, vulnerable, and you can do anything, with them. You can be yourself, completely bare, and that is power, and that is strength, and that is what you deserve.

It took me until I was 28 to experience that, and it was something that happened because I ended up in a good relationship, with a good man. And he made me feel beautiful, un-self-conscious, and ridiculously sexy.

At the time, I loved it. Now--I cannot stand the fact that it took someone else to love my body, before I was able to be comfortable with it. That boy is gone, and it was good while it lasted, but what happened afterward is that it was like it never happened. It was all dependent on him. My entire perception of myself came from the outside.

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