Romance Novelist Supports Dove Campaign For Real Beauty
What's a romance novelist doing recommending a soap company's products to friends, family and fans?Simple -- Nashville, TN author Pat Ballard wants to spread the word about the Dove company's campaign to help women of all ages and sizes appreciate their beauty. It's a mission Pat echoes in her motivational novels and short stories featuring plus-sized heroines.In an email Ballard recently distributed, she wrote:"I don't usually do this, but my attention has been brought to a company that is really trying to make a difference in the madness that is going on around us in this world, and I want to share their information with you all."Dove, as in Dove soap, etc., has a wonderful new campaign celebrating "real" women. Here is a link to an article/press

release that came out in September. I'm putting the first paragraph of the article here so you can see the impact of the article.'Dove® unveils a groundbreaking new study today that discusses the implications of a global society that narrowly defines beauty by the images seen in entertainment, advertising and fashion runways and the startling impact this has on women. The result: only two percent of thousands of women from 10 countries around the world consider themselves beautiful.'"Read rest of article: http://www.dove.com/real_beauty/news.asp?id=566"You can go to this link and do a poll and see the kind of women they're featuring as beautiful.

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/"It has been years since I bought Dove products, but as a result of this, I'm doing all I can to help support them. I know that their campaign is a marketing tool, but I believe it is also going to help a lot of women learn to accept themselves as who they are. For that reason, I applaud the genius who came up with this idea!"Feel good about yourselves, all my beautiful loved ones."Ballard is the author of Nobody's Perfect, Wanted: One Groom, His Brother's Child, A Worthy Heir, and Dangerous Curves Ahead: Short Stories, all published by Pearlsong Press (www.pearlsong.com)..