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My Curves, My Journey: Learning to Block Out the World

Jazzy by Jazzy
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Last week Audrey helped kick off our new series โ€œMy Curves, My Journeyโ€ย with her story of finding and embracing her love of color and fashion! Our โ€œMy Curves, My Journeyโ€ series was created as a way for us women to share our journeyย into finding ourselves. As I am on this journey of personalย growth and learning to betterย love myself, I felt the need to create a space for our community to share those stories. Depending on where we are in our individualย journeys we may just need to hear someone elseโ€™s story to help us move our along and so with this series I hope to encourage us to share with each other. What has been one of your mostย pivotalย moments on your journey to loving yourself and owning who you are? Can youย remember what that felt like? Join usย every week as we learn about eachย otherโ€™sย journeys to self-love.ย 

How do I start? Itโ€™s always been easier for me to talk about others before talking about myself. But after Audreyโ€™s amazing story of finding herself and love of color again, I had to jump in and share my story. Iโ€™ll keep it short and to the point. So here goes.

My Curves, My Journey: Learning to Block Out the World

Growing up I was always a plus size girl. From as young as I could remember Iโ€™ve always been the tallest and biggest girl in my class. Luckily for me, I had very few instances (except the one time I heard some โ€˜friendsโ€™ of mine say Iโ€™d be the perfect to ask out if only Iโ€™d lose some weight) where I was picked on or bullied for my size that really bothered me. For the most part I would just laugh it off. Kanye shrug. That all changed when I got into โ€œthe real worldโ€.

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It seemed to me as though the minute I entered adulthood, everyone I came into contact with wanted to tell me about some amazing new diet plan. Or give me my favorite backhanded compliment โ€œyouโ€™re pretty for a big girlโ€ or โ€œyour face is so prettyโ€! I can remember like yesterday, we were in Miami celebrating for my 23rd birthday and we were out walking down Ocean Blvd. Minding our own business. We walked past this group of guys and as I walked pass I heard them say โ€œyea you see they look worse as the line goes, and they put the fat one in the backโ€. That was literally the first time Iโ€™d ever heard complete strangers comment on me and my appearance and so boldly at that. It tore my spirit and definitely ruined the night for me. All I could do was call my friend and cry.

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Soon I started to place more importance on peopleโ€™s opinions of me instead of living comfortably in my own skin. I became more aware of the stares and looks (we all get but try our best to ignore) and let them dictate if I would enjoy myself. My moment, however, came when I entered a wardrobe makeover contest by blogger Ramona O, and I got to go and get my makeup done and be a model for a day!

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That day was very liberating for me, but what was even more liberating was the response and support from my friends and family and even strangers once we released the pictures from the shoot! Their love and support triggered something inside of me that brought back my confidence that I had lost. It helped me remember the old, carefree, happy-g0-lucky Jasmine that would gladly tell you where to put it if you had anything negative to say about her.

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Now Iโ€™m slowly, but surely getting back to that carefree Jasmine. Itโ€™s taken a while for me to get back to her, but she is here and shining through everyday.

I love that Jasmine has learned to block out the negativity of the world and love and embrace herself again!

Are you ready to share your story?

Send us your โ€œMy Curves, My Journeyโ€ storyย  in a minimum of 250 words

to info@thecurvyfashionista.comย and include 3-5 pictures of yourself! I canโ€™t wait to hear from you!

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Jasmine Franklin is a Staff Writer who focuses on relationships, plus-size positive topics, and opinion pieces. She is a multi-hyphenate writer with over ten years of professional writing experience. Her journey extends over multiple industries - grant writing, journalism, and marketing content. Jasmineโ€™s work has been featured in several publications, including xoNecole, Blavity, and Black Health Matters. When Jasmine isnโ€™t writing for TCF, she focuses on writing scripts. Jasmine aims to normalize stories and faces like her in television and film. She recently wrapped the second season of a nationally televised series on AMCโ€™s ALLBLK. In addition to writing, Jasmine enjoys traveling abroad, learning German, and watching horror movies. She graduated from the illustrious Clark Atlanta University, where she earned her B.A. in Marketing. Jasmine also has a certification in Search Engine Optimization.

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