Diversity is here to STAY

Today I had incredible luck.

To pose on a set of pictures amongst gorgeous bodies from all shapes and sizes for the French lingerie brand Muse.

I took away a lot but especially love. In many ways, all of these women gave an ambiance of love: loving themselves, loving their bodies, loving how they were feeling, loving the camera, and loving each other.

A French woman owns the brand; a woman did the artistic direction, the photographer was a woman, and the makeup artist and blazer designer were women. The fact that all this beauty was created by powerful, empowered women makes me appreciate even more what we as women can accomplish.

I am very grateful to Clém for opening up her brand and going beyond race, body types, and sizes. This has become a trend, but she really made everyone feel welcome and included. From a size 2 to a size 16, everyone felt a supermodel and a super sexy girl today, and that is admirable.

I'm writing this because I’m grateful, but also because I want to call on brands to make women feel this way and recognize that there are different girls and boys in the world. And to those girls and boys who think they can't be sexy or are not worthy of wearing underwear and showing it, I can only say: Why not? What's stopping you?

You are undeniably sexy and beautiful. We all are, and it's about damn time we started acting like it.

I sometimes feel like I'm not worthy, and the Lorenza from two years ago would never have done this, but here I am, empowering myself and trying to inspire others to do the same. Because rolls are normal, curves are normal, big, beautiful boobs are normal, and we should celebrate them as much as small boobs, medium boobs, big thighs, and long legs because they are all worthy.

You might be thinking; writing about this is such a cliche. But I wouldn't feel the need to express it if I didn't think someone needed to hear it and be inspired.

I wish I would've looked in the mirror two years ago or taken a picture (even with my clothes on) and said, "Damn! You're a sexy beast," but I didn't. I could not for the life of me listen to people when they said I was beautiful regardless of being bigger or having cellulite.

It was a long, long road, yet here I am, in Paris, next to beautiful girls feeling like an unreachable model. And I like that. I like looking at myself and loving what I see. You don't necessarily have to do it in your underwear. But feel empowered; love yourself. And if you already do, help others do so, as much as the girls I met today helped me.

I will always appreciate them and their courage in taking everything off and showing them how it's done!

Love always,

L