Bodacious BBW Boldly Bares All in Brooklyn

Meet Denise Jolly, the full-bodied hottie who recreated Madonna’s iconic nude hitchhiking photo in broad Brooklyn daylight.

Denise Jolly is 34-years-old, stands six feet tall, and weighs 300 pounds. Inspired by the nude photography book The Full Body Project by Leonard Nimoy—yes, Mr. Spock is an erotic shutterbug of abundantly corporeal bowler-overs—Denise embarked on her own “Be Beautiful Project”, wherein the writer, performer, and artist educator spent thirty days posing—and learning to love being—“nearly naked.”  

To punctuate “Be Beautiful”, Denise teamed with Shameless Photography to recreate the iconic 1992 photograph of Madonna hitchhiking full-frontally naked by a public roadside. Stepping outdoors in New York City’s County of Kings this past (very chilly) March, Denise regally doffed her frock and proudly, powerfully showcased her sumptuously sizable physique in the ravishing raw.  

Writing today on the Huffington Post about the experience, Denise reveals:  

“I thought about Madonna and one particular photo of her taken by Steven Meisel, hitchhiking nude from her "Sex" book released in 1992. The photograph is fierce, feminine and reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe. The image was so unapologetic that 22 years later, it still lives in the forefront of my memory.

But I kept asking myself, who am I to be so bold as to not only get naked for a photo shoot in public but also share that photograph with the world? But the counter question came immediately, "Who am I NOT to share a gorgeous and artistic photo of me standing boldly and unapologetically in my body with the world? With that, we booked the dates and flights and BE BEAUTIFUL went SHAMELESS in New York!  

When I walked around that Brooklyn street corner in March, I was present to every cell in my body. Each one was perfectly terrified. I stepped out onto the weathered street and lined up the stance I'd been rehearsing all morning. Sophie paced 15 feet away, shooting and scanning the street for the perfect shot. Carey and Maxine stood lookout and gestured directions to help get my stance perfect. My dress still on, I waited for Sophie to give the nod, at which point, I tore my dress off, threw it as far from me as possible, locked my posed body into place and prayed we'd nailed the shot."

Nail the shot, they did (to say the least).

To read more of Denise's simultaneously mind-and-lap-expanding meditations, musings, and actions mounded on behalf of loving one's body, check out her website: DeniseJollySpoken.com.

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