Big Beautiful Women Can Feel Sexy, Sensual, and Good About Themselves

Author Pat Ballard, the Queen Of Rubenesque Romances, shares how women can feel sexy, sensual and good about themselves at any size in a interview next week on the Size Matters, Too" radio show with Veronica Cook-Euell.

NASHVILLE, TN (PRWEB) January 8, 2005 -- If youve made a New Years resolution to feel better about yourself and your body -- or youre just tired of feeling that you dont measure up to Hollywood ideals -- youll want to hear what romance novelist Pat Ballard has to say on the Size Matters, Too" radio show.

Beginning on Jan. 8, 2005 you can hear Ballard, the Queen of Rubenesque Romances, speak with Veronica Cook-Euell, the Velvet Voice of Size Diversity, on WCRS Radio, Akron, Ohio, at http://sizematterstoo.com/. The shows will also be posted on Pats website, www.patballard.com.

Cook-Euell and Ballard will give plus-size women hints on how to talk to their mates, how to feel sensual, and how to learn to love their Big Beautiful Selves. Theyll also discuss Ballards motivational romance novels with Big Beautiful Heroines, and how women of size can learn to accept themselves and feel sexy, sensual and good about their bodies.

Ballard writes and speaks from experience. After dieting and starving herself from the time she was 11 years old until she was 33, she decided she was going to stop her self-destruction.

Ballard determined to eat healthily, exercise moderately, and accept the body that followed. I vowed to never again stand in front of a mirror and point out the bad things I saw, but to find and concentrate on the good things looking back at me," she says now.

As her self-acceptance grew, Pat realized she was far from alone in her previous body hatred. So many women-women of all sizes-arent happy with who they are. She also became increasingly aware of the lack of positive plus-size role models in the media, and so set about to write motivational romance novels featuring plus-size heroines, donning the crown of Queen of Rubenesque Romances.

But these books arent just for larger women," Ballard says. Theyre for women of all sizes to learn to accept themselves for the wonderful one-of-a-kind creation they are, and stop trying to look like or be someone that they were never genetically programmed to be."

Her fan base is growing, with readers regularly commenting on her books fresh attitude of self-acceptance and recognition of the natural diversity of body sizes.

Thank God, someone has the strength to be sane, and let a woman 'just be," one fan wrote Pat. Someone can look the societal ideal in the eye and say 'no thanks, Im valuable as I am. Women are tired and overstressed from doing it all. The lengths we go to in order to 'fit the ideal body image are undervalued. We need a collective 'enough already, and to send out the message that who we are as individuals is worth enough. Thanks."

Pats books include Dangerous Curves Ahead: Short Stories (Pearlsong Press, $13.95 trade paperback), Wanted: One Groom (Pearlsong Press, $13.95 trade paperback), Nobodys Perfect (Pearlsong Press, $13.95 trade paperback), His Brothers Child (Pearlsong Press, $13.95 trade paperback), and A Worthy Heir (Pearlsong Press, $13.95 trade paperback), all available through Amazon.com or other online booksellers, local bookstores, Ingram Book Group wholesalers, and directly from the publisher at www.pearlsong.com, P.O. Box 58065, Nashville, TN 37205, or (866) 4-A-PEARL.

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