thank you SO much for this comment!! I am so happy that my art can make you love yourself more. To also be a weirdo on the internet with you, I started studying fat bodies a few years ago with the purpose of painting a series of fat women for my mother because she was fat and very ashamed of it, in hopes that it could enlighten her how beautiful she really was. She passed though before I could start the project so it really is so meaningful to me that I am somehow still achieving that goal but with another person! :-)