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The Honest Body Project
The Honest Body Project was designed in 2015 to help women celebrate their bodies instead of pushing themselves to achieve the unattainable standards society that society often stets for women. Founder, Natalie McCain, published her work in the 2017 book: The Honest Body Project: Real Stories and Untouched Portraits of Women & Motherhood. This novel delves deeply into body image issues, breast cancer, depression (postpartum), aging, the negative stigma behind bottle feeding, and anxiety. Each story includes black and white portraits of raw, natural, and un-edited photographs of powerful women. Their children often accompany the women. There have been many inspirational stories that have been categorized into a different project 'series.'

Series

 * "The Beauty in a Mother" featured pregnant mothers sharing their stories, including a plus-size mother shamed for her maternity photos. One image from this series received over 36,000 likes. "I'm 35 weeks pregnant and just last week I had maternity pictures taken to celebrate this horrible, but beautiful pregnancy. For the first time in about 35 weeks I felt beautiful, and was so excited to share this moment with my friends and family. Later that day we got the sneak peak pictures back and I posted them on Facebook thinking my friends and family would think I was beautiful and would love them, however that wasn’t the case. All I received were negative comments about how huge I am, about how unhealthy I am, and about how they think my baby is going to be a 10 to 12 pound baby by the looks of how much I weigh. I literally went in the bathroom and cried for hours. It’s so hard being plus size, pregnant, sick, and getting negative comments about the way I look. If I’m happy and accepting of my body, why can’t everyone else just be happy for me?!"
 * "After The Baby is Born" was the follow up series to The Beauty in a Mother and featured the women 4–6 weeks postpartum.
 * "We Are Not 'Still' Nursing, We Are Just Nursing" featured women who breastfeed their children from ages 2–5, sharing stories on extended breastfeeding.
 * "Defined By Our Hearts" featured mothers sharing stories about their children with various special needs.
 * "True Faces of Depression" shared stories of women who have various mental illnesses, such as depression, anxiety disorder, PTSD, and postpartum depression.
 * "Balancing Both Worlds" shared the stories of working mothers and how they balance motherhood with their career.
 * "No Mother Should Be Ashamed" featured mothers who bottle feed their children for various reasons and shared their stories.

U.S. National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health's comparative analysis on the Honest Body Project
The images of the Honest Body Project are more diverse when compared to the work of gallery artists such as Tara Ruby and Ivette Ivans, who have also created collections of breastfeeding photos. The relationship between the children and their mothers is candid, intimate, and slightly unconventional because it strays from the baby-in-arm pose. McCain’s stylistic choice of bright white light intensity with a black background unravels the facial expressions of the mother and child and the unbreakable bond between them. McCain’s images are more expressive than Iven's and Ruby’s, the latter two creating a more glamorous aesthetic, showing women in beautiful clothing or landscapes, and providing a broader framing that draws from nature and landscape photography. McCain’s work is also more normalizes breastfeeding in general as well as normalizing breastfeeding in public."

Documentary Series
The honest body project was part of the mid-drift documentary series to spread body-positive, beauty, and self-worth to all women. The documentary showcases various postpartum experiences across the globe. The aim of the documentary is to remove the negative stigma that exists for women who may feel compelled to return to a perfect body post-pregnancy. The project emphasizes the beautiful and phenomenal experiences of motherhood and embraces 'motherhood's physical transformations.'

Internal Support from the Government of Greece
The project has garnered support from the Greek Republic Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction and the General Secretariat for Gender equality. The Greek ministry posted informative material about the project on the government division website. “The objective and core principles of the Honest Body Project has been transmitted to various organizations in Greece such as the Hellenic Parliament, the National Commission for Human Rights, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Health.