[murmuring]
- [Director] One more time without moving forward so much.
You can look over to me here
and in this camera
- [Woman] We've been sort of lied
that we're supposed to all look
and exist the same way.
- I felt like I had to prove myself as a woman
and fit into a certain narrative of what that means.
[drum beat]
- People commenting to me in person about my shape,
my size.
[indistinct]
- And then I was like, enough.
Now, it just sounds so stupid every time I say it.
[soft music]
- Something that really impresses me
about my body is
it has its own instinct.
- I really like my skin.
It has warmth and softness
and coarse bits and dimple bits
and I feel like it represents me.
- How's that?
- That's better.
- What I started to see women like Salma Hayek
and like Jennifer Lopez, my eyes just like opened up
'cause I was like, okay, they like
look way more like me than anything I've ever seen.
- After having her, I got stretch marks,
my boobs was twice as big,
but seeing how my baby just love upon me,
rubbing my side fat,
made me just appreciate my body even more.
- You know, my body has been part of my journey
from the very beginning of life until now
and it's what takes us through.
Okay, okay.
I don't really feel like I'm an age necessarily.
I don't know, I feel ageless.
- There are a lot of caricatures
of what it means to be a man or a woman
imposed on trans people.
But the body that I was born into is my body.
And the way that I move through the world is myself.
[upbeat music]
- There was strength that I didn't even know that I had.
- This is sexy to me.
This is womanly.
This is strong to me, this all, that's kindda pretty insane.
- What the body will feel.
- Feel strong seeing my muscle.
When you see yourself as beautiful--
- [Woman] Beautiful.
- It's a way of stepping into your own power.
[upbeat music]
- [Woman] It's my body. - [Woman] My body.
- It's sacred to me, you know, and it's my all.
[upbeat music]