Photo: Curves, The Book

Victoria Janashvili isn't just giving lip-service to the idea of body-positivity — she's actively showcasing it.
Her regular job is as a very successful photographer for men's magazines like Esquire, Maxim and GQ, but in her spare time she photographs women of all shapes and sizes. Her body of work is a celebration of every kind of woman.
"Even though the average woman is a size 14, our society continues to set stereotypes as standards when it relates to a real body image of women," Janashvili said in a statement in Cosmopolitan.
Janashvili recently released her first book, Curves, The Book, in which she worked not only with super models, but women far from the fashion industry.
Curves, The Book is dedicated to showing female beauty in every forms, using models like Denise Bidot, Jennifer Maitland, Angela Martini, and Diandra Forrest — some of them plus-size, some of them decidedly not. And that's the point.
Janashvili isn't saying one kind of beauty is better than another; just that it isn't only about being a size zero or being plus-size. It's about self-esteem and confidence.
The photographs and stories of the models are for anyone, but they're perfect for anyone who's ever felt self-conscious, flawed, or different.
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