I would like to applaud you for loving your body enough to pose nude and spread the pictures for everyone to see. However, I also would like to take a moment and thank you for making me have yet another conversation with my teenagers about how it is not appropriate to drool over a woman's body, worship nude pictures of women, or treat women as objects. However, when a celebrity's nude picture pops up on the internet, it's hard to keep a teenager from wondering what all the hype is about. I'm sure they don't care about what classes you studied in high school or college, what kind of career plans you have, what your family looks like, or what hobbies you enjoy. Instead they would probably say something like "Did you see?..........." And yet have no real idea what they are looking at and what a beautiful creation the female body is. God created women for a great purpose. Although, I'm sure one of them is not to be spread all over the internet.
You are not the first nor the last to pose nude and have the media run wild with the story. You are, however, a mother. I would like to think that as a mother I try to raise my children in a way that would be helpful and loving to those around them. I would like to think that as their mother, I make decisions for myself and for my children that benefit not only us as a family but those in our community. So I wonder, what were you thinking when you posed nude and had pictures plastered all over the internet? I'm sure you didn't consider the multitude of conversations that parents were once again going to have with their teenagers. AND I'm sure you didn't concern yourself with the fact that teenagers, who are FULL of hormones, will be seeking your pictures based on media hype and have no idea how to deal with the aftermath of seeing nude photographs.
Teenagers are a beautiful thing. They are full of mystery and discovery. They are full of hormones that they have no idea what to do with. They are full of wondering if what is happening to their bodies is normal. They are full of questioning their identity and what they will do with their lives when they enter adulthood. It is us, their parents and adults around them, that have to help shape and guide them. I have to remind them that every nude picture on the internet is someone's daughter. I have to remind them that God created the human body for miraculous things. But I also have to remind my children that the enemy is lurking around any corner to try and get into their heart and to guard their hearts. One day you will experience the joy and heartache of raising a teenager. One day you will have to explain the nude pictures you have on the internet to your child(ren). Because if you think for one minute that your children won't go looking for your pictures you are sadly mistaken. If you think for one minute that you can protect your child from every hurt or thing they may see on the internet, you are mistaken.
You see, in a world where social media is EVERYWHERE, it truly takes a village to raise a child. It takes all of us working together policing and guiding our children to help them grow into adults that help the world. I don't believe for one minute you ever thought about anyone else but yourself and how much money you would make off of these photos. If you did, If you truly thought about the greater good, you would have respectfully declined the photo shoot.
I have included a link to an article that sums up what I will once again be talking to my teenagers about. If nothing else, you have opened a door to another tough conversation that needs to happen in every household that has children.
Sincerely,
A disappointed mother
http://www.faithit.com/5-things-i-plan-to-tell-my-teenage-boys-about-the-nude-photos-of-kim-kardashian/#.VGf8i5EvQC4.facebook
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