![]() Which is why we are very grateful for the photographers and women who agreed to share the following photos. We just gave birth to a tiny human who we help make for nine months.” Instead of running from it and hiding ourselves in shame we should be able to embrace ourselves in pride. That strength and courage it takes to give birth is something. I wish more women saw the beauty in themselves. “Women deserve to come in and have a whole day to leave worry at the door and just get a pampering makeover. “Is it easy to do? No, but does it help? Yes,” Rami Thompson of Black Lace Boudoir in Virginia told us. But whether they do these sessions in those early weeks or months or years later, they report that overcoming that initial hurdle of fear and vulnerability is incredibly rewarding. The act of putting on glamorous makeup, doing your hair, and then stripping down to lingerie in front of a photographer may sound alien and scary to many moms in those first months postpartum. “Postpartum boudoir is about transforming your self-image and breaking through self-sabotaging and limiting beliefs you might have formed with the new you,” photographer Marisa Leigh of Intimately Yours in Los Angeles told SheKnows. And this is definitely the case for the mothers and parents, including Teen Mom 2‘s Kailyn Lowry, who sign up for postpartum boudoir. Many women and men hire photographers for boudoir sessions entirely for themselves. But that’s not necessarily the case anymore. They are traditionally photos of people in sexy underwear or lingerie, posing in a bedroom setting and taken for the gaze of someone else, or even many someones.
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