Bree is 38 years old and has three children: one is 19, another is 16, and the youngest is 7.

She grew up in poverty and spent a decade of marriage counting every penny. No one told her then that her body, the one magazines and well-meaning aunts described as “having too much of a belly”, would end up becoming her greatest asset. Today, from North Carolina, she earns up to $4,000 a week by showing herself exactly as she is: with breasts sagging from breastfeeding, with curves that have not been under the knife, with a size 12-14 that she decided to stop hiding.

She spent $48,000 on a tummy tuck after her pregnancies, and even so she insists that natural is what attracts the most. “Many men love a belly, and many women don’t realize it”, she says. Her plan is not to compete with surgery, but to show other mothers that the body life left them with can also be a source of pride.


