Loose Women Body Stories: Every Body tells a story....Tuesday 2nd May at 12.30pm on ITVLoose Women Body Stories airs from Tuesday 2nd May at 12.30pm. The campaign sees nine of ITV’s Loose Women panellists bare their bodies for the first time - without filters or airbrushing - and photographed in swimwear by international superstar photographer Bryan Adams, who has previously photographed the most famous women in the world including The Queen and Kate Moss. Billboard posters launched across the country yesterday featuring the stunning images of the Loose Women. The aim of the campaign is to encourage all women, whatever age, or size, to celebrate the story their body tells. Whatever it is that they see as their 'flaws', be it a post-operative scar, birthmarks, post baby-weight or stretch marks; to say ‘it’s ok, it’s part of what makes you ‘you’. On Tuesday’s show from 12.30pm on ITV, the panel will invite viewers to tell their own body stories with the hashtag #MyBodyMyStory - some of which will be featured on the programme over the coming days and weeks. Loose Women Editor, Sally Shelford, “Here at Loose Women we talk honestly and speak from the heart. We are fed up of being pressured to get bikini ready and feeling bad about our bodies because they don’t live up to an unrealistic ‘perfect’ figure. Instead, we wanted a campaign that celebrates the stories our bodies tell – from the babies our bodies have carried and nurtured, or the scars that say we’ve lived to tell a tale, they all make us unique and who we are.” Bryan Adams said: “It was a funny thing to get a call and be asked to do this… and what I thought was interesting about the brief was, they wanna be natural, they don't want any retouching, and they want it to be real, and I thought, ‘Ok! that sounds really good!’ “So the fact that all of the women were all being really honest about how they are, I thought, ‘Well that's great.’” THE LOOSE WOMEN: #MyBodyMyStory NADIA SAWALHA And to be honest that's why I wanted to do the shoot. I wanted to practice what I preach to my daughters. What the hell does it matter what we look like as long as we are smart, brave and kind? “I'm praying that after this I will feel liberated and no longer be living in my secret cellulite hell!” ANDREA McLEAN “I do wear bikinis but I usually hoik them up to cover the scars. With this shoot I’m revealing my scars. It’s the first time and it has been weird. “I hope people see the pictures for what they are; real women, not edited or airbrushed, letting their body tell their story. Since the shoot my confidence has really increased.” COLEEN NOLAN “I hope other women with body shapes like mine feel they can also be proud of themselves - there's no perfect person in the world - we all come in different ages, shapes and sizes and life is too short to spend it hating yourself because you not a size 8 or 21 anymore.” LINDA ROBSON “I never normally take my clothes off – even for my husband. But I’ve gone sugar free and I’ve lost 17 pounds – so I’m feeling better than I have in years. I’m far from body confident, but I think it’s really important to show these pictures to inspire all women to appreciate their body at any age.” SAIRA KHAN “I have talked about being "touched up" when I was 13 years old and that experience led to a disconnect between sexuality and my body. I have never done a bikini shoot but I’m really excited and honoured to be part of this campaign, and to just be honest with other women about how I am. “I want to say ‘this is NORMAL’ particularly to women of colour. Forget the airbrushed images you see. This is what I REALLY look like. I’m sticking two fingers up.” STACEY SOLOMON “I don’t want my kids to worry about how they look as much as I do. The thing that really worries me is that my 9-year-old son talks about wanting to go to the gym to build muscle! Even the kids’ toys have muscle on them like Batman and Spider-man. But what I hope this photoshoot shows women and men is that in most celebrity pictures there has been some form of airbrushing or retouching – so they shouldn’t compare themselves to unrealistic ideals.” JANET STREET - PORTER JANE MOORE “I’m skinny but I have lumps and bumps. I have a C-section scar, crepe-ing on my tummy. It’s a couple of kids and it’s life. I’m kind of happy with that. This shoot has been an eye opener – I thought about my body in a different way. Having the rest of the girls together, it’s great. It was a fantastic experience.” KATIE PRICE Press contact: jo.farrelly@itv.com May 2, 2017 6:39am ET by ITV Press Centre |