Mental Health Awareness Week I’m sure this is the week I’m supposed to be being all positive and promoting Mental Health Awareness, especially as the main focus this year is Body Image. I should be all over this right? But tonight I cried. I cried so hard and blew snot all over Husbandface. Poor Husbandface. […]
A Love Letter From My Body Dear Gemma, This is your body here. I wanted to write and tell you about my feelings for you. I know we have not had the easiest of relationships, like the time we had gastroenteritis over Christmas or when our back went picking up a tissue from the floor. We […]
Slow Clap For Avon… This week I was saddened and extremely disappointed by Avon Canada’s decision to advertise an anti-cellulite product in a such an insensitive and, quite frankly, ghastly way. My attention was drawn to the Avon issue, by women on social media who, like me, were quite frankly shocked and disgusted. The advert […]
MRS TWIT v SUCK YOU IN PANTS I don’t know if anyone else has this thought process. Try outfit on, inspect butt, back, front etc in the bright, cold harsh lighting of a retail changing room and immediately go into a spiral of self-loathing. The outfit could look banging but those bastarding cubicles of doom, […]
University Back at the end of my A-levels I started to experiment a little more with my style. I got my navel pierced and this meant I now had to show it off. I was a size 14 and I thought I was enormous, but… BUT… I had done this very cool thing and […]
Hello, and Welcome… Welcome ladies and gentlegerms for here is my first attempt at a blog post – the journey begins. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton So I’m Gemma and I started a very important journey back in August 2017. It all started with a book, a […]