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What made you decide to become a plus size model?
At age 15 my life changed when I found out that I had Lupus.
Due to the physical limitations from pain, the many side effects
from medications, and having depression, I began to gain weight.
I was never a small girl (5’8” by the age of 10 and 150lbs in
high school) and I had always battled with self esteem because
I was naturally bigger than everyone and my family wasn’t the
most sensitive with their words. But it wasn’t until I was put on a
medication for fibromyalgia at age 21 that caused me to gain 45lbs
in two months that I truly began to hate my body. Over the course
of a year, due to depression and a bad relationship I went from
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a slim 175lbs to 230lbs. And after a near death experience due
Height/Size:5’8” / 16-18
to complications with my disease, I realized THIS IS THE ONLY
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BODY I GET! If I don’t respect, love, cherish and celebrate it, how
“Be careful, Anais, abnormal
pleasures kill the taste for
can I expect anyone else to? So I decided to celebrate my body by
normal ones”.
capturing it’s many changes. Modeling has allowed me to fall back
- Anais Nin’s Henry & June
in love with myself over and over again.