Category: Plus size fashion
Length: Shorter
Idea: Can you remember the first time someone totally unrelated to you, told you that you looked pretty in something? A complete stranger paying you a compliment for no reason other than to express joy? I remember. And yes, this seems like a weird way to start a blog post, but since this is my blog I reserve the right to get a little weird.I can't remember a time, as a younger woman, that I genuinely felt pretty. As someone who has been varying degrees of plus size my entire life, my earliest "fashion memories" were pretty awkward moments like:Wearing a white babydoll dress with matching white bike shorts and a floppy hat (what, like you never saw Blossom on tv?) and thinking I felt really cool because I was wearing what everyone else was... only to be called the "marshmallow girl" by some jerks on my school bus.

Category: Plus size fashion
Length: Moderate
Idea: Have you ever stopped to really wonder if you are dressing your SOUL alive? Sure, we see people wearing trends; many of us make our decisions based on what our friends wear, or what we see bloggers sport online, or what brands are pushing on us each season. But do you really LOVE that? Do those styles really speak to you? Do you know what you love?If you are anything like me, as a plus size woman, you may have had a bumpy road with style. As a larger plus size woman most of my adult life, my style philosophy seemed to be more Tim Gunn “make it work” than based on my true taste. It was always such a struggle to find things that really spoke to me, so I’ve always just made do with what I could find

This is a body in progress. This is 38. This is an unapologetic woman. This is me. Do I make you uncomfortable? Does this image of a larger woman, standing in her skin in a powerful and sensual way make you pause? I hope not, but there’s a good chance it does. Because this isn’t something we see every day. I know, even I paused the first time I scrolled through these pics and, hell, that’s MY body!I wasn’t anticipating the end result of these pictures.