Kelly Hanner – Haulover Beach, Florida

Women in Nudism: Are You Hesitant?

March 25, 2022 Kelly Hanner

Are you a woman who’s hesitant to be nude at the beach? As a woman, being nude in general used to be hard for me considering all the hang-ups I used to have over my body. Once I started to get comfortable in my own skin, I was still on the fence about nudity out in public. After all, growing up as a woman in the Midwest, there weren’t a lot of opportunities to be nude out in public in the first place. Also, from the little bit I saw in the media of nudists, it seemed like something people in their retirement enjoyed. Combine all that with a fear that once I got nude in a public place everybody would be gawking at me, or I could at least expect creepy men to be staring- I was just irked by the idea of random strangers seeing me nude. My [READ MORE]

My Story: Nudism Changed How I Viewed My Body

December 5, 2020 Kelly Hanner

Written by Kelly M. Hanner Being confident wasn’t something that came easy for me. Growing up, I witnessed my mother jump from one fad diet to the next. Jenny Craig, the cabbage soup diet, meal replacement shakes, Lean Cuisine meals, weight loss pills, etc. You name it, she tried it. Couple that with seeing her display for me day in and day out how much she hated her body, it was the perfect recipe for a mind virus to slip into my impressionable mind. I distinctly remember joining her for Weight Watchers weigh-ins. The look of accomplishment as she stepped on the scale to find that all of her point tracking from the previous week resulted in a couple of pounds weight loss would quickly dissolve into the past when the following week she’d step on the scale at weigh-ins only to have disappointment wash over her face as she [READ MORE]