Out of Control Growing up there was no one who looked like me in the media. I remember feeling like something had to be wrong with me due to that. I would flip through magazines and not a single plus size model was featured. During my adolescence, I developed a serious eating disorder. I began […]

The Beginning My journey to healing my mental wounds took vulnerability, which included boudoir photography. I kept finding myself in relationships with the same type of abusive men. It was all I knew, so I thought it was normal. For years after being sexually assaulted and raped, I felt really uncomfortable in my body. I […]

Self-Hatred This is a story of self-acceptance and taking off the mask. For a lot of people, including myself, a familiar word is hate. I remember being twelve years old and knowing that no matter how much Cover Girl make-up powder I put on my face, I would still look like me. I remember crying […]