QUOTES 8/21/2017

“I strived to have the perfect bikini body thinking that would make me happy, but it took too much time, too much energy, too much sacrifice.  I discovered on the road to working out that my body is not an ornament.  When you’re weighing food and counting parts of food, it’s such a deep obsession.  For me to have that perfect bikini body, it’s a struggle for my body.  We are under immense pressure from society to have the perfect bikini body, but that’s not life! . . . No matter who I spoke to; women from the Dominican Republic, France, Germany – the story was still the same: negative language about their body. . . women need a platform to feel empowered to pursue active change. . . you don’t have to be at war with your body!  You can embrace your body.” - Taryn Brumfitt, http://amysmartgirls.com/meet-taryn-brumfitt-director-of-body-positive-documentary-embrace/

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“Tom Brady and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, traveled to Italy . . . During the couple’s sojourn, the New England Patriots quarterback was spotted on a lounge chair completely naked, making him the latest celebrity to join the coven of men who sunbathes in the nude. . . Over the summer, Orlando Bloom was photographed paddleboarding and frolicking around Sardinia wearing absolutely nothing.  Around the same time, Justin Bieber went commando during a trip to Hawaii.” – Patricia Garcia, http://www.vogue.com/13485903/male-nude-sunbathing-vacation-tom-brady-orlando-bloom-justin-bieber/

“Welcome to L’Italo Americano, Italy’s first and only nudist restaurant that recently opened its doors near Milan.  The only rule is: in order to get in and taste divine food you must be totally naked. . . Clients are led to this undressing room where they leave all their belongings in separate drawers . . . Ladies are allowed to take a little clutch for their make-up and the guys a pouch for cash.  But that’s it.  At the entrance you’re handed a soft white cotton towel to sit on for hygienic purposes. . . After dinner the place turns into a nudist disco with live music featuring ‘70-80’s revivals and group dances. . . the unclad clients get down on the dance floor to burn the calories they’ve just piled on, shaking their lower and upper parts in utter freedom and without any kind of constraint. . . ‘I’ve been going to naturist shores my entire life but have never had the chance to have a meal totally undraped at a real restaurant, sitting normally on a chair at a table with my friends’ [Luigi Moroni] . . . ‘It makes me feel free.  Italy badly needed a restaurant like this one.’ . . . It’s a naturist restaurant where people share the pure philosophy and culture of nudism.” - Silvia Marchetti, http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/weird-and-wacky/inside-italys-first-and-only-nudist-restaurant-litalo-americano/news-story/5f644365a2a627f94ceb484f05def07d