Amanda
Grumman strips down for our feature on the beauty and
blemish of the human body.
Amanda Grumman,
24
Newport Beach, Calif.
Likes:
breasts
Dislikes: “I’m only half
Jewish but got the full Jewish nose”
Growing up,
Amanda Grumman always saw herself as “the scrawny
kid.” “I was the one trying to gain
weight while everyone was trying to lose it,”
the 24-year-old says. But spending high school at boarding
school changed her perspective. The close quarters
both exposed her to a wide variety of body types and
“kind of nipped modesty in the bud for me.”
Today, Grumman
trains horses, and her body displays the physical nature
of her work. “I’m active every day. I’m
outside every day,” she says. “Whether I
like it or not, my body is toned in a certain way and
I’ve really grown to appreciate it.”
Some of that appreciation stems from what she calls
“a really good relationship” with a previous
girlfriend. “She just loved my body and loved
all the parts of my body I was the most insecure
about,” Grumman says. “That was really
powerful.”
While she says
her work has given her a more athletic look than she might
want, she wouldn’t dream of having plastic surgery.
“There are little things I can look on and
criticize,” she says. “But I’d rather
take what I have and use that to my
advantage.”
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Profiles by
Neal Broverman, Kyle Buchanan, Japhy Grant