Realize Your Beauty

As a member of the Collaborative of Eating Disorders Organizations (CEDO), Realize Your Beauty strongly opposes the new clinical guidelines introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. We do not support intentional weight loss in children via the methods included in the guidelines, especially the recommendation of bariatric surgery and pharmaceutical products for children. 

The AAP’s guidelines for childhood “obesity” are harmful, may increase or exacerbate eating disorders or disordered eating…

On this Giving Tuesday, please consider making a donation to support Realize Your Beauty as we revitalize and reimagine our programs to meet the pressing mental health needs of young people across the country. 

Realize Your Beauty is almost entirely volunteer run, and with more than 2,200 volunteer hours per year, we are hard at work to promote self-esteem, positive body image, and eating disorder awareness to youth through theatre arts. 

Make a tax-deductible donation today and help us to empower young…

We are very proud to announce we are the recipients of a $500 Grant Award from the incredible philanthropic company See Beautiful!

See Beautiful has supported our mission from the very beginning and we are so very grateful. The funds will be used to sustain our operating costs, which is incredibly helpful.

If you would like to support their company, please consider making a purchase of one of the beautiful items from their website: SHOP

THANK YOU See Beautiful!!

*Image courtesy of See Beautiful's…

Hello My name is Clara Nascimento. I was crowned as a Miss Kingston Outstanding Teen in June 2022. I'm really excited to start my school year as a senior and also expand my platform every body is a beautiful body. I truly believe that everybody deserves to be loved and supported by our society and by others in terms of their body type!I am so exited to work with Realize Your Beauty to fundraise and bring awareness to body image issues!

We are thrilled to welcome Clara Nascimento as Realize Your Beauty's newest Ambassador! 

Clara is a High School Junior from Nashua NH and is Miss Liberty’s Outstanding Teen within the New Hampshire’s Scholarship Program.  

Her passion is to educate, inspire and remind children and adults through body positivity that they can and should love themselves. 

She is honored to be joining Realize Your Beauty as an Ambassador and looks forward to working with children to love their bodies.

To find out more…

What a year this has been for all of us. With schools remote, summer camps cancelled, and youth groups on hold or meeting virtually, we, along with many other youth non-profits, have had to rethink our programs and our outreach. But one thing is for sure: youth outreach programs are needed now more than ever.

Feelings of isolation, loneliness, anxiety, and depression are rising in young people. We are hard at work behind the scenes redesigning our programs to meet students where they're at now, both…

May 6th marks the NEDA Network’s second national #NoDietDay social media campaign to encourage the rejection of diet culture! This movement promotes fighting back against the shame associated with society's standards of beauty and respect for all body shapes and sizes.

We invite you to join us in promoting healthy relationships with food, movement, and body image!

Take the pledge and find out more HERE!

We're very proud to have Realize Your Beauty's Founder featured on ATTN: Media's new video series- 'Secret Messages with Ashley Graham'.

Please follow this link to ATTN:'s Facebook page to watch!

We're already planning for Camp Realize Your Beauty 2020!

Applications to be released in Mid-January 2020, with special early bird pricing.

Dates & Location below:

July 19th-24th, 2020 ~ YMCA of the Rockies ~ Estes Park, CO 

Girls, Ages 10-15yrs 
Jr. Counselors, 16-18yrs

Your camper will learn acting, play writing & directing skills, 
with a special emphasis placed on developing a positive sense of self! 

Topics addressed at Camp RYB: Self-Esteem ~ Kindness (towards self & others) ~ Anti-Bullying

At our summer camp, we talk to the campers about bullying and practice ways they can deal with the situation should it arise. Bullying is a very real and serious issue, and cyber bullying can be especially difficult to handle. We try to teach the kids to have empathy for the bully- that often the bully is dealing with many serious issues that cause them to lash out. And while finding empathy can help us to deal with our anger and hurt, it doesn't excuse the behavior. We teach them that it is never, ever…