Bailee – Sheer Boudoir

Bailee: Self-Love Movement

Alyx is a Northwest Arkansas boudoir photographer who believes that every body is beautiful and worthy of love. She started the Sheer Boudoir Self-Love Movement to help normalize normal bodies and to encourage women all over the Northwest Arkansas area to share their stories and journeys to self-love and acceptance. The stories shared are unique to each individual and are each woman’s own words.

Bailee is a 20-year-old mama to the cutest little bebe with ALLLLLL the hair. She wanted to participate in the self-love movement because, after having her baby 11 weeks ago, she was struggling to love her changed body. She wanted to see herself from a different point of view so that she could recognize that even though her body has changed, she is still the same Bailee!

“[Self-love] is almost like a personality [trait]. Being different from everybody else and not caring… It’s being happy with who you are and how you were made. I’m getting better at [my own self-love journey]. After having a baby, my entire body has completely changed but I’m slowly getting back to where I’m happy with how I look. “

“The way you were created is how you were meant to be. That’s how you’re supposed to be and you shouldn’t be upset about it. I struggled a lot with thinking I was too big when I was [a teenager] so I kept trying to lose more and more weight when I looked great and I still do even now. I wish I would have been happy with how I looked then, and I’m learning even now.”

“[In five years] I’d like to be completely happy with my body again. I mean stretch marks obviously are a thing. Right now with them being so new to me it’s hard but… I hope to just be happy with myself again.”