🌿 **A REAL PART OF MY STORY: PART 2/4 **🌿

As the photoshoot continued, the top slowly came off.

In these five pictures, I’m topless but still wearing my panties. There is nothing wrong with the poses or the nudity itself. We had discussed creating nude pictures, and that was something I genuinely wanted to explore.

But looking at these photos now, I barely recognize myself.

I didn’t yet understand how important it is for a photographer to make the person in front of the camera feel safe, respected, and comfortable.

The best photographers don’t only know about lights and angles. They know how to communicate. They help you relax enough for your real beauty and personality to appear.

Here, my body was posing, but my face was somewhere else.

Maybe I was also inexperienced and didn’t know what to do in front of the camera. But I could already feel that something about the situation wasn’t right for me.

I was too shy and too scared of seeming difficult to say it clearly.

Today, Bella would speak. Back then, I stayed quiet.