Best Idea Ever

Wrapped up in love and confidence

Those other women are stunning!

Hello beautiful ladies! I am SO excited to be joining you today on the wonderful Body Beautiful Blog! It’s a perfect place to share my experience and let you get to know me! So let’s get started, my name is Melissa Gilbert and I am a Pisces (if that’s important to you). A total country bumpkin, who loves to hunt, fish, hike, camp, you name it! I am a momma bear to the best two kids I could ever ask for, a daughter who is 6 and a son who is 9! I have had quite the journey with them, and finding my happy hasn’t always been easy.

When I graduated from high school, I decided the military was my path I needed to take and enlisted in the Air Force. I met their dad there and fell for him hook, line and sinker. We got pregnant pretty quickly, and got married before I had our son. I thought it was my fairytale ending but, whoa buddy, was I wrong. We eventually moved to Washington State where I had our daughter.  I started to see my fairytale fall apart when we were living there. I started to realize he wasn’t a good person. But when you’re a new mom and staying home full time, at this point you feel stuck.

    Fast forward to moving back home, and he has decided he’s done with our little family. He packed my bags and our kids bags and told me to go back home to my parents. Thus began the dark years. We divorced, it was ugly but my babies were with me and it was ok. Then the path was diverted.

     Roughly 3 years ago now their dad decided he wanted to take our kids from me; from the home they had, and school and friends and activities. We began a horribly ugly custody battle that we’re still stuck in. The mind games took a toll on me. I wasn’t able to see anything good in myself anymore. I felt worthless and like I was the worst parent ever. The stresses of those situations are brutal! I looked in the mirror and all I ever saw was all the flaws I had been told existed during our relationship. How do you battle those mental demons when you’re battling so much in real life too?

Enter Brenda and Body Beautiful! One of my dearest friends had been in front of her camera and gushed constantly about her experience. I was a HUGE skeptic. My best friend pulled me from a terrible, depressed spiral and put the work in to help get me back on track. Now I needed something to make me actually feel good about myself. I had seen the pictures and always thought, no way I could ever look this good. Those women were stunning! I could never compare!  I took a risk and jumped on a last minute deal Body Beautiful ran back in January. BEST IDEA EVER!! Brenda found a way to show me that I am Enough. The moment I said yes my life changed! I walked in to that shoot and soon felt like I was a 10 like the beautiful women I was seeing in her pictures. Brenda wrapped me up in so much love that the confidence just came to be. I had to fight the tears when I saw my proofs – all unedited but stunning! There was no way I looked that beautiful and yet, suddenly I felt that beautiful. Brenda gave that to me. She showed me that I am enough and I am still in awe.

       So here I am, now an ambassador for the brand that gave me so much love and confidence. If I can use this platform as an ambassador to spread just a little of the love and self worth then it will be the best thing I could ever do for another woman. Now you have a little slice of why I am Enough, and who I am. I can’t wait to meet every beautiful soul that reads this and share the love and self worth that Body Beautiful Boudoir can give you. Remember YOU ARE ENOUGH! and that you are beautiful!

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