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STANDING NAKED IN FRONT OF STRANGERS HELPED ME LOVE MY BODY BY MANDY NOLAN

You want to learn selflove, then get your kit off, strike a pose and let a room full of artists try and capture you in charcoal.

I am fifty-four. I have been an artist model since I was eighteen. It’s how I got through uni. While my friends washed dishes, I lay on a velvet-covered throne in a river studio. Being worshipped is so much better than stacking a dishwasher. I was paid an hourly rate to have my body

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