She Makes a Little Ocean

“But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her  body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea.   It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body.   And not only this.  Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.”

One of my favourite quotes from Gregory David Robert's book Shantaram and I think most appropriate for this post.  Let me introduce my gorgeous friend Nisrine.  She is currently on her third pregnancy but unfortunately has never had herself photographed pregnant.  We decided it was time to change that.  

We spend nine months at the beginning of our lives submerged in a liquid environment yet many of us never establish that connection again.  Fortunately, Nisrine is a water baby herself, growing up on the Mediterranean Sea water has always been a part of her life.  With some modelling in her background and her beautiful Lebanese genes she made my job easy.