Bare Woman #2: Katherine Curtis

Photographer- J.Sinclaire

Q&A with the model

Aside from the shower/changing and sex how often are you nude?

A: I’m incredibly comfortable with being naked.  I’ve been doing nude modeling for ten years now, and working for Naked News for five of those.  I feel better naked than I do clothed!

How did you feel during the shoot?

A: “Oh hey!  A perfect excuse for me to do maternity nudes!”

Did you notice tension in your body? A lack of looseness in your midsection, belly, hips, shoulders etc.? Change in breathing, holding breath?

A: Posing pregnant is different than posing before pregnancy.  While I’ve never had a “perfect” body (who does?), I’ve always been happy with the way I looked.  Over the past few months, I’ve watched my body swell with another life.  My body became a series of curves, and one I’m not quite used to working with.  I felt a bit more limited with what poses were flattering on camera.  However, posing nude while pregnant was important to me.  Pregnancy is the ultimate experience of femininity- it’s one of the very few experiences we have as human beings that is limited to women only.  Posing helped me embrace that femininity and helped to dispel any feelings of self-consciousness related to my growing body.