After Miss J’s sexy photo shoot, I asked her to tell me about her experience and all the things she thought before, during and after. Here are her thoughts.

What motivated me for a boudoir session was kind of a process of evolution. My boyfriend had been asking me, strongly hinting to me to do a session for years. In all honesty, I was starting to get annoyed because a Boudoir Session is so out of my comfort zone, or so I thought! When I started to look around for photographers (I decided to cave in just to quiet him!) I came across Kristin and her beautiful studio and the wonderful group of women on the FB page. That is when I started to feel good about doing a session. Preparing for the session with wardrobe and reading some very empowering posts is when the evolution happened and my motivation was no longer to go through this to quiet my boyfriend but to do this for me!! Seeing and hearing others’ comments on their experience changed my thinking from giving my boyfriend a couple of pictures of me in a costume awkwardly posed with a strange look on my face to tapping into the true feminine side of me and embracing womanhood feeling good in my own skin. My motivation turned completely selfish and I am so glad!

The beautiful album is a gift for my boyfriend but the experience is a gift for myself and a gift I feel every woman should do for herself no matter what age or season of life she is in. I was most nervous about being a middle-aged woman looking ridiculous trying to be something/someone I am not.

My favorite part of the experience is truly the cumulative effect. The bubbly, the glam and girl talk, the growing comfort of being scantly clothed and having a casual conversation laughing, to seeing the final result on a big screen seeing myself in a way I never thought of myself before.....beautiful and sexy....even at 50+ all combined into a glorious feeling. My favorite part was walking away from the day feeling empowered and thinking I just may have to sit at home alone with my lingerie on drinking a glass of wine and feeling good in my skin happy to be me.

After the shoot, I was feeling oh so fine! I felt confident and accomplished stepping out of my comfort zone and realizing my fears were unfounded. My initial reaction to my images, I don’t know how to put into words. Looking at the pictures I was in such a whirlwind state of shock and amazement. It was almost surreal seeing myself in quite the opposite my fear envisioned. I was not the old lady trying to look sexy and young but looking ridiculous; I was a sexy mature woman that looked quite natural and comfortable in who she is and where she is in life. I try to remember and relive that feeling on days that I feel less than. I remember how confident and radiant I felt and embrace that feeling good in my skin feeling.