I am a person who is inspired almost all the time. I was 16 years old when I stumbled magically upon Tumblr via a random style blog I was reading. I ultimately found a little blog called Fuck Yeah Chubby Girls. I was completely blown away. Even though I had fat friends, and lived in a southern town with a lot of fat people, I never truly felt okay in my skin. So when I came upon that blog with endless pages of beautiful and body positive individuals, I was excited! There were people of all sizes strutting and posing and smiling and loving their bodies and I instantly wanted to be apart of the entire fat community. True, the first time somebody described themselves as "fat" I thought that it was negative and being a baby fat, I didn't know a lot. I also found the Fatshionista group on Flickr and seeing all of the style that was happening, I wanted to be apart of that also! I love clothes,and style, a love that grew along with the love I have for my body. Before I was body positive, I hated clothes, I despised shopping and living in a large, poor, middle-class family, most of my clothes were passed on from my older sister, or bought at thrift stores (which now is completely not frowned upon, but in middle school and early high school it really wasn't that great.) I reverted to the uniform of jeans, a men's t-shirt almost two sizes too big, a hoodie to cover my arms and coveted Chuck Taylors, black, obviously. (see vintage pictures below!)
(please excuse the extreme lame-ness in these pictures! Myspace Era ha! Oh man, dat time stamp!)
The self conscious 16 year old would have never believed that she would turn into the gorgeous (though I'm not saying I never was) nearly inhibited 20 year old I am today. In fact, she would have laughed in your face, while still believing that Fall Out Boy was going to stay together forever and that MySpace would be cool forever (ugh.)
I'm not where I want to be in regards to my body image and also my style. I feel like I probably can always improve and there is always room for growth and change. I feel like my style reflects that, though I am still completely prone to just rocking a band tee and jeans. I'm trying my darndest, though, and I wanted to document that in the form of an actual blog. This blog won't be exclusively a style/clothing/etc. blog, I'm definitely interested in posting my interests in music and art and photography in addition to style and fashion, and fatshion.
I am completely grateful and humble that people are interested, that you as the reader read this entire thing (and if you didn't I don't blame you one bit, I am sort of a skim-reader also!) Please stay tuned for more! I promise my posts won't be far as long as this first introduction! If you have any questions, feel free to email me or if you have a Tumblr, my ask is always open!
XO
Amy
