So, I'm friends with a lot of beautiful, smart, sexy, sassy, wonderful phatabulous ladies on Face Book, right, and all of a sudden I see a bunch of these Time-Square Billboard Ads for Dove soap and bath products with a lot of my FB friends pictures on them. Now, at first I was like wow, a plus size woman on a billboard in Times-Square that's something to blog and brag about, but then I see more and more, so I immediately become curious. Which basically means I googled it. Turns out Dove is doing something very good for women all around the world. They've purchased a billboard in Times Square that's basically a slide show, and all you have to do to be on it is go to their website dove.us and sign up and submit a pic. I did this and the very next day: BOOM there goes my picture. I screamed!
I immediately started inboxing, calling, telling everyone I think may be interested, you know all of the women I see posting beautiful cell phone pics (lol). I say to them, this is your chance to actually get those bathroom pics (we've all done it) out their and you never know. But to my surprise I get very little response back and the response I do get is so shocking to me. "I don't think I wanna do that", and every excuse in the book, and I'm like, "are you serious""?
I don't get it, I just don't get it. People talk a lot of talk, but when it's time to show up, their scared.
Okay, so I'm done with my little rant. Back to the fact that for maybe about 3-5 seconds my picture was on a billboard in Times-Square. I am soooooo excited. Yea me!
Thanks Dove for taking the time out to recognize natural beauty and for giving all of the women like me who would love to model or do something like that but just don't quite fit the bill. Thank you for saying we are still beautiful anyway and actually doing something about it.
