In this series within my blog, I will share individual client stories, that they have allowed me to share with you, in hopes of encouraging you to love yourself more right now not when. These are real women, with real stories.
Meet Melanie, a school bus driver for over 17 years!!! She has an Autistic son who is a bus aide for special needs too. She is a widow with a happy love story. Her and her husband where madly in love, and then dementia happened. Though this one will get your heart strings ladies, her and her long standing hubby needed help towards then end, and she wanted someone to help who loved him as much as she did. That person ended up being his life long best friend, since they all where so close already it made things easier. In the end her husband asked his best friend to love her like he did, and to care for after he was gone.
Sometime after his passing her and his best friend fell in love, or shall we say a deepening of love they already had. They are now happy together knowing both their spouses would be happy they found love again. As she told me this during her shoot, we both teared up. She feels so blessed to have 2 great loves in her life.
Her hubby always said she was beautiful, even though she at one time was over 400 pounds. To honor her hubby, and show off her new body, after loosing most of the weight she wanted to showcase herself, for herself and her new love. So we did, she never wore makeup, so we got her all dolled up and ready for the shoot. By the end I felt I had a new friend and she felt so empowered and beautiful it was amazing. She wrote to me a week ago saying she is peeking at her album almost daily, and thinking make-up isn’t so bad. She feels proud of how far she has come, and now is loving seeing the results of her hard work.
So, without anymore to-do, here is what Melanie had to say about her experience:
