We are standing for self love!
I, and if anyone would like to join me, will be going into a busy public
area where there's lots of foot traffic.
I'll be taking off my clothes down to my bikini, and...
Oh, my days!
I will be blindfolded and there'll be a sign that says,
"I'm standing for all of those who don't love their body
"like I used to.
"If you think that people should love their body, draw a heart
"on my body," and I'll have pens in my hands.
And so the public can come and draw a heart to say that they support people
who want to love their body.
Oh, I love that!
You love it? It's amazing, yeah.
Do you want to do it? Yeah. Yeah!
Amazing!
You all right, Babs? Babs is out.
Even if you don't want to, you can come and watch.
SHE SNIFFS
Why the fuck would you do that?
It's mad.
It makes me feel sick.
That sort of scenario
absolutely petrifies me.
You guys doing it have got some proper fortitude to do that.
That takes some proper guts.
I don't know whether I'll be getting into the bikini myself.
What's going on in your brain with that?
It's purely a practical thing - because it's quite hot weather,
I'm worried about the chafage, ladies.
You all right, pal? Hello, gorgeous.
You OK?
Not really.
What's wrong?
I just...
I just feel so bad for everyone.
Why? It's like...
..why would you do that to yourself? I was just saying the same to Sarah.
It feels like throwing a lamb in a lion's den.
I don't know if I can do it.
But you don't have to do it. No, no, no!
But that's the thing, Jed, because...
..I feel like I've come in here and I want to give...
..you know, do everything, experience everything.
And I know that, if I don't do it, then next week, I'll be fucking kicking myself
and saying, "Why did I not experience that?"
It's incredible that Courtney's doing it, because you live
in a more marginalised body than I do.
I will get less hate than you will.
So, massive kudos...
I'll be very surprised if I heard something new.
I've heard everything they could possibly throw at me.
So, bring it on, cos I'm not fazed by it any more.
God, you're exceptional!
Remarkable.
Absolutely brilliant.
So, we have one more person to hear from.
What do you reckon, Babs?
OK.
I would like to come along...
..in my swimming costume...
..and see how I feel when I get there.
THEY CHEER
My first memories from, I think, maybe five years old was wanting
to roll my shirt up and tie it in a little knot, cos that's
what all the girls were doing, cos it was really hot, and I knew
that, when I did that, it was really bad, because I had a little tummy.
Sun's out, guns out!
I think it's here. Bullying in school was horrendous.
It made me not want to be on this Earth any more.
I didn't feel good enough to be here, cos everybody else
was telling me I wasn't.
It must be amazing to be of a bigger size and feel confident.
And I didn't even know there was something called body
positivity and body power or whatever it is.
I didn't even know that existed until coming in here.
I just assumed everybody was like me.
I'm hoping this is not a live bear bait about to happen,
I really don't.
It's important that they're shocked, because it means
that what we're going to do is going to have an impact.
You all right? Um...
No, not really.
But...
Fuck it! I'm going to do it.
Is this not for you? Nope.
Yeah.
Yay!
We are standing for self-love.
And if you agree with our message - that you should love your body
and accept who you are -
then we invite you to come and draw a heart on our body.
Oh, my God. My pens have just fallen down!
The tighter, the better, so I can't see no-one.
Hi. I love your nails. Thank you.
How are you? I'm good, thank you.
Well done. I think you're doing an amazing thing. Thank you so much.
Great. I'll take the red one.
Thank you.
Thank you. No problem.
Thank you. Thank you.
Hi. Hi, I appreciate you. Oh, thank you. You're my hero.
Thank you.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
I'm glad I'm blindfolded.
I was mopping up my tears.
I'll do one.
Oh, thank you - on the belly.
It feels amazing. I just want to hug everyone.
Hi. Hello.
You know, they're proud of their bodies, and they should be.
Yeah, I think it's great.
Thank you so much.
I think these women are absolutely amazing.
Thank you.
People are being kind and nice and they want to be part of
the message as well.
Thank you for drawing a heart on me.
I'm over the moon.
This is amazing.
One of the best things I've ever done.
Thank you very much.
You know what's, like, the most surprising thing of it all?
How many people are walking past and just don't care.
Yeah, no, I agree.
A lot of people don't care, and we internalise it. Yeah.
To be fair, you could be really right there.
Oh, my God!
But then you're always battling your own demons in your head. Yeah.
Like, I'm looking at them, going, "They're so brave."
And then there's a bit of me, like, "You should join them." And I'm just like, "I don't think I can."