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"  &amp;quot;The message is embrace your curves and who you are...&amp;quot; \u2014Kim Kardashian KIM KARDASHIAN &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t get why everyone is always going on about my butt. I&amp;#039;m Armenian. It&amp;#039;s normal,&amp;quot; says Kim Kardashian. &amp;quot;My butt is probably not as big as you might think, because I have small legs and a small waist, which makes it appear bigger.&amp;quot; Even so, her curves helped rocket the 29-year-old into a one-woman multimillion-dollar earning industry. But they used to be nothing but a source of tears. &amp;quot;I was wearing a C cup by the time I was 11. I would go to bed and pray, &amp;#039;Please, Lord, don&amp;#039;t let my boobs grow any bigger,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; remembers Kardashian. &amp;quot;I hated what was happening.&amp;quot; Growing up in Los Angeles surrounded by blonde California girls, the five-foot-two-and-a-half-inch brunette found solace in the vintage images of Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch tacked on her wall. &amp;quot;Those became the healthy bodies to look up to. Then came Salma Hayek and Jennifer Lopez. I related to them,&amp;quot; she says. Now she&amp;#039;s learned to be happy with her looks. &amp;quot;I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me,&amp;quot; she says. Taking care of herself is part of it. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m trying to eat better \u2014 which is a struggle. I like carbs,&amp;quot; she says, laughing. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t [used to] work out. I do now, even when I&amp;#039;d rather sleep in. I&amp;#039;m a firm believer that you should be your best you.&amp;quot; Kardashian still has shy moments. &amp;quot;A good six months have to go by before I&amp;#039;ll leave the lights on for a boyfriend,&amp;quot; she says. And she didn&amp;#039;t love her 2007 Playboy cover. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sorry I did Playboy. I was uncomfortable,&amp;quot; she remembers, though at the time she was excited. &amp;quot;Go for it,&amp;quot; she recalls her mother saying. &amp;quot;They might never ask you again. Our show isn&amp;#039;t on the air yet. No one knows who you are. Do it and you&amp;#039;ll have these beautiful pictures to look at when you&amp;#039;re my age.&amp;quot; This time around, Kardashian is much happier. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s definitely scary, but it&amp;#039;s very liberating,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I think the message is embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m curvy, and I&amp;#039;m proud of it now.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ll never be thin enough, blonde enough, black enough...&amp;quot; \u2014Joy Bryant JOY BRYANT Though her svelte form might make women jealous now, Joy Bryant loathed her body when she was growing up in the South Bronx. &amp;quot;It was not cool to be so skinny. My &amp;#039;best friend&amp;#039; would tell me I looked like a boy. I wore my cousin&amp;#039;s hand-me-downs \u2014 who was a boy.&amp;quot; A scholarship to a prestigious Connecticut boarding school reshaped her perception. &amp;quot;These girls were telling me my body was amazing, which made me feel okay,&amp;quot; she says, though not for the healthiest of reasons. &amp;quot;Some of them had eating disorders because of pressure from their own mothers to be thin.&amp;quot; The psychological yo-yoing only continued after she began modeling at 19 and was told that her athletic build was too big. Then came a move to Hollywood, where guys would suggest she should eat a cheeseburger. &amp;quot;But I was the same weight as always,&amp;quot; says Bryant. With age came a few pounds and, for Bryant, peace of mind. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not 25. I&amp;#039;m 35. I&amp;#039;m 10 years heavier and I&amp;#039;m married,&amp;quot; says Bryant, who wed stuntman Dave Pope in June 2008. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not going to lie and say, &amp;#039;Oh, I&amp;#039;m so secure in who I am. I don&amp;#039;t let things bother me,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; she continues. &amp;quot;There are times when we&amp;#039;re at our weakest. But maybe it&amp;#039;s not your body. It&amp;#039;s your mind playing tricks.&amp;quot; Or, sometimes, other women. &amp;quot;Women are the harshest critics of other women. There needs to be a greater acceptance individually and collectively or nothing&amp;#039;s ever going to change,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ll never be thin enough, blonde enough, black enough. So enough is enough.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always been the curviest girl...&amp;quot;\u2014Amanda de Cadenet, Photographer AMANDA DE CADENET &amp;quot;The reason I wanted to do this story is that I&amp;#039;m challenged with my physicality,&amp;quot; says photographer Amanda de Cadenet. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always been the curviest girl. Since having twins four years ago, I&amp;#039;m now super curvy. It&amp;#039;s not the body I used to have. &amp;quot;I get frustrated that I can&amp;#039;t find clothes to fit from designers I love. Roland Mouret and Marc Jacobs send me the big-girl sizes, but other than that it&amp;#039;s slim pickings,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t try to hide the obvious. I try to own it as best I can. Marc jokes that no matter what&amp;#039;s in the collection, even if it&amp;#039;s for curvy women, I&amp;#039;m still busting out.&amp;quot; This shoot, as well as launching a Website this month devoted to women&amp;#039;s issues, is a very personal project for the 37-year-old mother of three. (Her eldest is 18-year-old model Atlanta de Cadenet.) &amp;quot;I see how some of my daughter&amp;#039;s friends struggle with their bodies. You look at magazines and think, That looks good on that skinny girl, but it doesn&amp;#039;t look like that on me,&amp;quot; she says. After posing, de Cadenet was pleasantly surprised by the results. &amp;quot;This is really about women and girls accepting their bodies,&amp;quot; she explains. &amp;quot;If we&amp;#039;re more comfortable with our naked bodies, we might be more comfortable with our clothed selves.&amp;quot; Kim Kardashian Behind The Scenes At Harper&amp;#039;s Bazaar       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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