Stacie – Sheer Boudoir

Stacie: Self-Love Movement

Alyx is a Bentonville 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.

Stacie has been married to her husband Mark for almost 30 years and just celebrated the big 5-0! She’s a parent to four and a grandparent to two.

“Self-love is just being happy with yourself … just learning to be happy with you how you are every day. I think that I’m somewhere in the middle [of my self-love journey]. I think that it’s taken me a while to not give a shit about what other people think. My mom has played a really big part in that.”

“[If you’re struggling with self-love], talk to other people. Open up about it with other people. Talk to other women – you know, everybody has their thing that they don’t feel comfortable with – their wrinkles or their tummy rolls. We all have them – it’s just the way God made everyone.”

“Know that you’re valuable to someone even if you don’t feel in the moment that you have value… When you’re feeling down, know that you have value. Make sure you have a community of people that you can talk to.”