Jae West took to the streets of England to promote body acceptance, and ended up having her faith in humanity rewarded.

As the above video shows, West, who dealt with an eating disorder throughout high school and her early 20’s, decided to conduct a public experiment where she would undress to her underwear, hold several pens in her hands while blindfolded and allow pedestrians to draw whatever they’d like onto her body.

“One night I was watching Amanda Palmer’s TED talk ‘The Art of Asking’ and was truly inspired by her vulnerability and courage. She described how she had stripped naked to allow her fans to draw and write anything they wanted on her,” West explained in a subsequent blog post . “That night as I was going to bed, the idea of linking the vulnerability of nudity with self-esteem issues in a public setting came to mind.”

West’s apprehension at first quickly subsided when the first person drew on her.

“All of a sudden I felt one of the pens in my left hand slip out of my grasp. The feeling of the felt pen was on my skin was one of the most overwhelming feelings of relief, gratitude and love that I’ve ever felt. I just burst into tears,” she wrote. “After that first love heart was drawn it felt like others were liberated to follow suit because soon all the pens were leaving my hands at a rapid pace.”

She even inspired a father to have a discussion about body acceptance with his children in front of her.

“He was acknowledging the fact that everyone should love themselves exactly as they are and appreciate the bodies that they are given,” she wrote. “If everyone could know and appreciate how beautiful they are from childhood I think this world would be a very different place.”

As the video itself notes, people of all shapes and sizes can struggle with self-esteem issues revolving around their body. West and the organization that helped her, Liberators International, hope that her experiment can inspire countless others to better foster a relationship with their body.

“The unrealistic expectations we place on ourselves can cause us to reject the love that others openly give because of a feeling of unworthiness,” West concluded.