Just Keep Swimming (64)

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"Okay so you're in meetings all day today, tomorrow and Wednesday, I've got a shoot today and an interview on Wednesday, it's your birthday on Thursday, I'm at the studio with Sam on Friday, and then we're both getting fitted for the Met Gala on Saturday."

I read out our ridiculously busy schedule for the week as I lie in bed, watching Harry get dressed out the corner of my eye.

"Yup." He says simply, threading his belt through his jeans.

I throw my head back against the pillow and resist the urge to groan at the thought of such a busy week.

"And then next week we'll go out to dinner somewhere nice." Harry says, and I glance at him questioningly. "It feels like ages since I've taken you on a date and we've had proper time together."

"So... you're not including every night we spend together?" I say with a wink, getting out of bed.

He chuckles and comes over to me, wrapping his arms around me and smiling down at me with his beautifully dimpled cheeks.

"As wonderful as those moments are, we're rather too preoccupied to fill each other in on what we've been doing during the day."

"You're right. For some reason I always find my mouth busy doing... something." I say with a mock shrug, making him smirk.

"Exactly. So I'll take you out to dinner somewhere and you can tell me all about the interviews you do this week, and what amazing new painting ideas you've come up with."

I pull away from him with a smile, heading to the wardrobe to find something to wear, grabbing some baggy trousers and a top.

"And you can tell me all about your meetings. I'm excited to hear what you come up with."

"Me too." He says with a small chuckle, perching on the bed to put his shoes on. "Apart from the name of the album and a proposed release in July, we've got nothing decided yet. Though I think I know which songs I want as singles."

"Part of me wishes I was there with you." I say nonchalantly, brushing my hair and pulling it into a ponytail.

"You could come along tomorrow if you wanted to?" He offers.

"No that's fine, thank you though. I'll be just as excited seeing it all fall into place."

Harry leaves pretty soon after that, only briefly getting distracted by a goodbye kiss, and I decide to leave as well, figuring I can grab something small to eat when I get to the studio.

I'm doing another shoot for the website today after the success of the last one. I'm pretty sure there'll be other people there today too, which is exciting. It felt quite intimidating to be the only one with the camera and everyone's eyes focussed on me.

Loads of body positivity blogs and pages have been in contact, and I think a few of them are there today, some to get their photos taken and a few just to watch, I think. I'm going to try and chat to them as much as possible, though I don't know how busy I'll be.

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Eight hours later and we're done.

It was way more fun than I was expecting! Sam had taken on board something that had been mentioned in a meeting a little while back, and had me paint on myself and the models for the photos.

We took some photos just natural to begin with, all of us in our underwear, quite similar to the last shoot I'd done. Then they gave me some paints and a brush and told me to paint over any areas of insecurity.

A couple of stretch marks on my thighs I painted in blue, and got someone to help me dot pink on the acne scars on my back and shoulders. The other models agreed to it, so I did similar things to them. I painted some yellow flowers over cellulite and tiger stripes over surgery scars.

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