WEARING no clothes, Adelaide housewife and mother of three Taryn Brumfitt didn’t much enjoy her reflection. Did she set out to restore her pre-motherhood body image? Yes.

Was she happy with the result? Not particularly – high expense, physical discomfort.

Where to next? The decision was wonderfully rational – accept how she was and get on with life. Modest before-and-after selfies on Facebook scored 100,000,000 hits and turned her life around.

The film says 91 per cent of women hate their bodies. What an unhappy statistic! Women’s quest for bodies that they don’t hate supports a huge industry raking in money that could be better spent on more rewarding things. No amount of re-modelling trickery can change the reality that a woman gets only one body and it’s a whole-of-life deal.

Taryn went round the world filming women speaking about themselves. Two examples stand out. In California, women of assorted shapes, sizes and colours all wearing modest undies pose for a famous fashion photographer. One is congenitally misshapen. Is she angry about the bad deal she got from nature? She’s not.

At a nude Sydney Harbour fundraiser swim, two strangers form an unplanned friendship. They’ve each had a mastectomy.

Taryn’s film is passionate about its objective. I expect that every woman and every partner of a woman will find value in it. I certainly did.

At Palace Electric