Hey, and thanks for coming to the Body Gossip website! I'm really excited to welcome you to this site, which is the result of nearly two years' work - and we're still only at the beginning!
Let me tell you a little bit about Team Body Gossip.
I'm the Body Gossip Mum, having lived and breathed it since I had the idea in August 2006. I was living in New York, studying at the New York Film Academy, and I became really aware of how body image was affecting so many people - I became very conscious of my own body and how, as an actor and presenter, I was expected to look a certain way.
Back in the UK, I decided to create a show about body image - and how it affects all of us. I'm hooked on how empowering the script is going to be - real people celebrating their REALISTIC beauty, their HEALTHY, NATURAL beauty. That's exciting, that's groundbreaking, that's powerful.
So, from August 2006 I signed my life away to Body Gossip - and since then it's been often joyous, sometimes frustrating, but always interesting!
And joining me on my Body Gossip journey are my two Main Dudes, Ben Scriven and Mark Johnson - aka Absolute Legends. Both Ben and Mark have coaxed, cajoled and inspired me, and I think they both rock excessively.
Mark is my extremely clever, massively talented, well-connected, dashingly handsome and ice cool Ideas Machine - all that, AND he has a full-time job!
Ben is my best mate and The Man Who Can Do Everything - he's directed and edited AND written and performed the music for all the Body Gossip films you'll see on this site and on Bebo over the next few weeks, AND he took the fab pictures on this website - clever guy huh?
So that's us - we're a small team, but we've got big ideas.
Keep checking this site over the next few weeks - the first phase of the writing competition is launching on Bebo on 28th February 2008, and will run until 28th March 2008.
There'll be new videos uploaded every few days, and I'll be blogging regularly with updates.
And please enter the writing competition! I can't wait to start reading your stories.
Love, Ruth x
