Photographer Jade Beall is determined to show women that bodies — our bodies, in whatever stage of life — are stunning. "A Beautiful Body project," she writes of her most recent venture, "is a movement of women coming together to tell their stories and celebrate their ever-changing bodies so that future generations of women can live free from self-suffering." Her new book of photographs, "The Bodies of Mothers," comes out on Mother's Day, May 11, 2014.

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