Because I feel very strongly that everyone deserves to feel sexy and develop confidence, I have decided to launch the Bombshell Betty® Everyday Bombshell™ Scholarship Program to provide self-esteem enhancing classes, services and products at no charge to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and women overcoming eating disorders, physical disabilities, economic disadvantages and other intense challenges to their self-esteem.
Since 2004, I have watched my programs create positive changes in the lives of thousands of women across the country and around the world. I am looking forward to teaming up with local shelters, treatment programs and support groups to expand the scope of these services through this Scholarship Program.
To apply for the Scholarship Program, go here.
You can be a Body Image Activist!
To get the ball rolling, I am looking for Everyday Bombshell™ Ambassadors to help promote the program and raise funding for the Scholarship Program.
Every month, a new Ambassador will be featured on the All Kinds of Sexy blog. Each Ambassador will set a fundraising goal and promote the page during the month they are featured in order to find sponsors to help them reach their fundraising goal. Plus, Ambassadors are given a code to include in their promotions so that during the month of theirAmbassadorship, 10% of all sales and registrations by new customers using the code will go toward the Ambassador’s fundraising goal. Qualifying Everyday Bombshell™ Ambassadors may also be eligible toreceive products and services through the Scholarship Program.
Want to participate? Apply to be an Everyday Bombshell™ Ambassador here.
Donate to the Scholarship Fund
You can also help by donating directly to the Scholarship Fund!
* 100% of direct donations (minus credit card processing fees) go toward the
Everyday Bombshell™ Scholarship Program.
* PLUS: For every $1 that is donated directly to the fund, Bombshell Betty® Dance and Pinup Services will contribute an additional $1 worth of free classes, services and products. So if you donate $20, Bombshell Betty will provide $40 worth of services and products through the Scholarship Program; if you donate $100, Bombshell Betty will provide $200 worth of services through the Scholarship Program.
To donate, click here.
At this time, donations made to the Scholarship Fund are not tax deductable, however we are working to change this in the near future! In the meantime, your donations are going to a good cause AND worth double the amount you donate.
Holly Highbeams
October 21, 2010
Hi, Betty, The link to the form for signing up doesn’t work. I thought you’d like to know.
bombshellbetty
October 21, 2010
Thanks for letting me know, Holly! I have fixed the link, so it should work properly now.
Holly Highbeams
October 21, 2010
I love all of me even my big scars.
I’m not so bothered when someone comments positively on my weight loss. It’s usually only friends and family who make the remarks after I tell them I’ve been trying to lose weight. One woman said something out-of-the-blue at a show and I felt good about it.
Now, remarks about weight gain are another thing entirely for me. I grew up feeling bad about my weight largely due to my brothers’ teasing. A previous partner’s loss off attraction to me as I gained weight was very painful for me as well. I just didn’t get how it was so important to him. For that reason, I don’t think we were a good match. We got together when I was in my early 20s when I was very athletic and it just didn’t occur to me that keeping my weight down would be so challenging as I got older.
Once in the late 80s, when I was at a chili cook-off in Berkeley, of all places, some random guyin a crowd made a negative remark to me about my body size and I thought “what a jerk!” What bothered me most was the sense of entitlement this guy had about himself that he could make judgmental remarks to a perfect stranger. This guy was actually a bigot and full of himself. I think it’s fair to say he was a narcissist. I also think people who make inappropriate remarks about another’s body is basically not comfortable with their own.
Now, at age 49, I feel so much healthier about my body image. I am grateful having been exposed to size-positive activists in college during the 80s, at the now closed Says Who, and still open Seams to Fit shops in Oakland. And Fatso! on-line has been great. I love Rubenesque Burlesque, Lady Monster, my inspiration to actually take the stage; you know, the “I can T-O-T-A-L-L-Y do that!” moment, and Big Moves Dance.
Bombshell Betty’s classes and performing in burlesque shows has been so affirming and body confidence building for me. I have also had wonderful friends and lovers who have told me how “juicy” and “luscious” I am. It’s so great to have the vocabulary to characterize what I love about my body — this skin I’m in.
It is so uplifting to be in a green room and hear other performers make body positive remarks about themselves. You women are so right on!!!! Most recently it sticks in my mind that one performer said as she was putting on her costume, “The Goddess gave me double-Ds for a reason! I thought to myself… you Go!!!… and btw, thank you Goddess for my triples!
Thanks so much Bombshell Betty for your blog and the dialog it’s generating.
XOXOX
Tiara the Merch Girl
October 22, 2010
The link’s still broken (there’s a stray bracket).
Is it possible to sign up as an ambassador without needing to register as a receipient? I’d love to promote you, though I am too far away to make use of your classes!
Damiana Dolce
October 23, 2010
As a burlesque performer and the mother of 3 teenage daughters I would love to help but can’t seem to get the Everyday Bombshell™ Ambassador application link to work.
Could you send me the form via email?
Thanks so much.
xxDDxx
bombshellbetty
October 30, 2010
Sorry everyone! Don’t know what seems to be wrong with the Google Docs form, but it is not working. I will be posting the application questions on this blog and accepting applications via email instead. So sorry about the confusion!!!
bombshellbetty
October 30, 2010
I have updated the links in this post. To apply, go here: http://allkindsofsexy.wordpress.com/contact/
Thanks, everyone!
Giggles
January 3, 2011
Hi Betty,
I was hoping to donate to the scholarship fund, but the paypal link doesn’t work. I get this error: “PayPal cannot process this transaction because of a problem with the seller’s website. Please contact the seller directly to resolve this problem.” If I can donate directly to an email address through paypal or something, just let me know. I love this idea!
Alexis
bombshellbetty
January 3, 2011
Ack! Thank you for letting me know about this! I will fix the link or take it down ASAP! In the meantime, you can donate directly by going to http://www.paypal.com, clicking “Send Money” and sending any amount to bombshellbettydance at yahoo. I am so glad you are interested in donating! I am very excited to be able to offer free services through this scholarship fund.
bombshellbetty
January 3, 2011
I have fixed the link, but feel free to donate directly through the Paypal website as listed above if you prefer or if something goes wrong with the link again.