Today, Valentine’s Day, is the 10th anniversary of V-Day, a day and an organization created to combating violence against women that developed from Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues. The V-Day organization has raised more than $50 million for local anti-violence groups and rape crisis centers.

Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda were interviewed twice today on the TODAY Show, and I appreciated this comment by Jane Fonda on the power of the play:

“I knew that women have a right to our humanity and bodily integrity. I didn’t always live it behind closed doors. But when I saw ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ I never laughed or cried so hard in the theater. I think it was while I was laughing that something happened and I kind of slipped into my body and I really changed.”

If we are fully in our bodies, fully appreciative of our bodies, we will not tolerant bad treatment of said bodies by others or by ourselves.

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of V-Day, Ensler and company are staging the biggest production of “The Vagina Monologues” in its history. It will take place over two days at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome on April 11-12, with a star-studded cast: Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek, Oprah Winfrey, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Hudson, Glenn Close, Julia Stiles, Ali Larter, Sally Field, Marisa Tomei, Calpernia Addams, Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington, and musicians Common, Eve and Charmaine Neville.

Friend of The Curvy Life, Authentic Beauty, will be providing makeovers for up to 5000 of the women of New Orleans as part of V-Day’s “Superlove” event at the Superdome. The Curvy Life plans to be in New Orleans for the event–if you want to join us, see V-Day 1{0} for details.