There have been many new pictures being posted online about body image, the real versus the fake, the photoshopped form of “beauty” versus the natural body that women and men have. Through magazine covers and articles, many young girls and older women see themselves as being “unfit,” “fat,” or “not the correct body image.”

It is hard to feel happy in your own body, it is even harder to go out in public wearing barely anything when you feel imperfect. Everyone has had those days where you go to a pool and you don’t feel comfortable in your bathing suit, but in front of millions of strangers…

Amy Pence-Brown, the nearly 40-year-old mother and “fat activist,” was inspired one day by a woman, Jae West, that is apart of The Liberators International in Piccadilly Circus, London to do something that not many people would remotely think of doing.

Jae West was on tour with The Liberators International in London when she decided to go out on the streets.

The Liberators International is a group of people that make videos hoping to shine light on the fact that there is love and humanity.

"I believe what we do allows an opportunity for people to connect to their own true essence which is pure love and happiness," said West.

Just as West did, Pence-Brown took off her clothes, except for a nondescript black bikini, and stood in the middle of Capital City Market in Boise, Idaho blindfolded with a sign that said, “I am standing for anyone who has struggled with a self-esteem issue like me because all bodies are valuable. To support self-acceptance, draw a <3 on my body.”

Both West and Pence-Brown had rather different reasons for the blindfold, but they both agreed on the aspect of feeling vulnerable while out in the street.

"Sometimes when we make eye contact with others they can feel obliged to engage, I wanted everyone that stepped up to draw a love heart on my body to be because they wanted to and felt inspired to not because they feel they had to," said West.

The reasons why Pence-Brown decided to blindfold herself was a few ways that may have helped the movement that she was hoping to convey. Pence-Brown used it for three main reasons: To add to her vulnerability, to be more anonymous and make them only look at her body and not her face, then hoping for them to look at their own body, and lastly to represent the way TV and print media have used black bars to cover the faces of fat people by “taking away their humanity by showcasing them as nothing more than a body to be reviled.”

She stood out there for over an hour and when she was done her entire body was covered in marker hearts and words of encouragement from her neck down to her feet.

When asked how each mark felt being put on Pence-Brown she responded with, “A sense that something extraordinary was happening.”

During her standing, someone had left her a flower and a lemonade for her to enjoy when she was done. She had so many feelings about everything that had just happened when she was done and with this video she is hoping that it will result in a revolution of love.

Both women, after doing this stand, felt so much emotion and had multiple tears.

Many of people are very insecure about their bodies. With these sort of people going out in the world and showing that they are able to feel good about themselves, real people. There have been many people sending pictures out to the world of themselves and see what the world thinks that they should look like as beautiful.

"Body image and self-acceptance is something that I have always been passionate about endorsing after experiencing an eating disorder myself through high school and my early 20s," said West.

Everyone should feel confident in their own skin. These women have put themselves out there and it makes me personally think about how I need to stop thinking negatively and start thinking more in a positive way.

Could I personally ever go out there and strip down to close to nothing? Heck no, but it makes you think, "How many people would come up to me and tell me that I am beautiful if I did this?"