Teresa // NJ Maternity Boudoir

I love photographing expectant mamas. When I was pregnant 2 years ago, I didn’t want any photographs of myself. I felt terrible, bloated, huge. It wasn’t until the very end, at about 37 weeks that I changed my mind and had my husband snap a few shots of me. Years later, I’m now so happy that I have those photographs of that time in my life and I’m so happy that I changed my mind before it was too late.

So not only do I love documenting this time in these beautiful mama’s lives, but I love showing them just how beautiful they are – through my eyes and through my lens.

Teresa though had zero hang ups about anything. She has embraced this beautiful body and this beautiful time in her life. I only needed to put to paper the way she felt: beautiful, serene, powerful, sexy.

It’s not very often (read: never) that I get clients as open and daring and trusting as Teresa. She came in to the shoot with a few ideas, but she came in to it fully trusting me, telling me I had free reign and just saying “sure” a lot. (to fully appreciate it, I had her with no clothes on, on a cold and windy day, on wet sand. She was shivering and saying “nope, I’m fine”)

Here is to motherhood. To beauty. To expectant life.