ABOUT ME

Hey! I’m Alex!

My clients always become friends so get used to every session being an adventure, occasional inappropriate jokes, and year-round mimosas, because you’re part of this girl gang now.

My why:

In 2015 I laid on a doctor’s bed watching my ultrasound, as a young, nervous, first-time-mom. It took exactly 1.4 seconds to make out what was on that screen and there was no “let me have the doctor talk to you” because there was NO denying (even to my newbie eyes) that there were two little beings growing inside me. Four hands, four feet, two giant heads. I admit I cussed, a lot. Holy shit. How could someone of my stature safely carry twins? Would my body be… ruined? I was only 22- I hadn’t even had my mid-twenties body long enough to appreciate it. I don’t love admitting the vain thoughts that went through my mind, but it was the truth. I was scared for the babies and scared for what my body would look like in 7 short months.

Turns out, my body looked how you can probably guess. Stretch marks, loose skin, and SO foreign feeling to me. It went through SO many changes in the span of just a year, and I was so busy navigating twin newborns that I wasn’t eating properly and I very quickly became thinner than before I got pregnant. So on top of everything, I was now very thin and literally didn’t recognize my body. It took about a year for my weight to level back out to my original size but my stomach felt different, my back had carried so much weight and my core had lost all its strength, and even my hips felt different to me. It took years to be able to look at my own body and feel like it wasn’t someone else’s. When the twins were around three, I started photographing boudoir occasionally and it didn’t take me long to realize ALL women had a body story.

Every woman’s body is different now from the one they graduated high school with. Different now from the one they turned 30 with. I realized that not just babies, but all of the life ups and downs we deal with, truly affect our bodies, and in doing so, our mental states. It also didn’t take me long to learn how much of an impact boudoir photos can have on a woman’s confidence and journey to loving her body again. I had the privilege of seeing first hand how every body is different, and yet each is beautiful. I was able to see how a woman’s body journey can affect how she feels mentally and how she carries herself. I was able to see the love come back to her eyes when she looked at images of herself and saw what I saw. As I’ve aged, I’ve also learned to love and appreciate my own body, even with all the changes it has gone through since my early twenties. I wish often that I had photos from before my pregnancy to even remember what my body looked like then. Not to change what it is now, but to reminisce on it at those moments in my life. I wish I didn’t just have CLOTHED images from that time– I want to see and appreciate my body before it carried my babies into this world.

On that note, I truly wish I had boudoir images from DURING pregnancy, too. My body did an incredible thing and I was so uncomfortable with the changes it was experiencing, I only have one or two nude selfies from a very mediocre camera phone. I wish I had celebrated all of the stages of this body and now I encourage other women to do the same. Preserve your body in those moments, because someday you’ll feel love toward it and want to look back. With my eyes opened to how important and special boudoir is, I knew I wanted to focus heavily on it within my business. Every woman deserves to find her confidence and feel it on a regular basis. I want them to look back at their images and feel those same powerful feelings from their session with me, and feel more comfortable with their body as it carries them through life and the phases that may change it. Women deserve to no longer feel foreign in their body, and to love it no matter what she goes through in life.