She stripped till her underwear and stood with arms outstretched in the busy Piccadilly Circus of London. Blindfolded, she held a marker pen in each hand, waiting for a busy London public to stop and take notice. Meet Jae West, the girl from Perth, Australia, who carried out this extraordinary stunt to stand up for something that we all suffer from: body image issues.
On a white board next to her, she had mentioned her motive – she simply wanted passersby to draw a heart on her body if they supported her message. And boy did she get responses! In her blog that she wrote after this incident, West says that while all throughout she did “feel an overwhelming sense of vulnerability”, she was also heartened and uplifted at people’s reactions.
West, in her blog, also wrote about how she herself had struggled with body image issues while growing up, and wanted to spread the message of self-love.