FREEDOM is truly found when you realize that what your body looks like does not equal your level of health, success, productivity, beauty, sexiness, happiness, your mental health status, or who you are.

Read. It. Again.

We 👏🏻 Are 👏🏻 So 👏🏻 Much 👏🏻 More 👏🏻 I love this photo because it was taken on a day where I truly felt that feeling of freedom.

LIFESTYLEAshley DoroughMarch 1, 2020body positivity, body image, beach body, plus size swimwearComment

Why Body Confidence Matters

I recently got a message asking why everyone who’s above a size 14 feels the need to proclaim their body confidence to the world. “Why can’t you just live your life without talking about it all the time, like smaller women?”
Here’s why. 👇🏼

LIFESTYLEAshley DoroughAugust 23, 2019body positivity, body acceptance, plussize, health at any size, HAAS, bikini body, beach bodyComment

Dear Summer Body

Dear Summer body:
I’m sure that you’ll look different next year, and the year after, and so on. Bigger, smaller, older, dimplier or not, looser or tighter, whatever the case... I want you to know that I won’t look back.

LIFESTYLEAshley DoroughJuly 23, 2019body positivity, body acceptance, beach body, plussize, plussizeswimwear, self lvoe, self loveComment

Beach Body Confidence // The Steps I Took

I’m not always super confident in this swimsuit but I wear it. I wear it because I deserve to rock a two piece just like anyone else. I wear it because I’m no longer trying to hide anything and I love my scars. And I wear it because it’s important to me that we NORMALIZE ALL BODY TYPES.