Closely
Influencer and model collaboration
To be comfortable half naked with strangers, I did not see that coming ten years ago, not even three years ago.
Life as a model makes me more naked to your eyes, I’ve come to understand that what you see is not what I see. I know that you will accept my nudity with more forgiving eyes than I ever will, and I’ve come to trust in your opinion. As sad as it is, what I experienced as a child being bullied, has set marks like a tattoo on my bone marrorw. I’ve come to accept that some things around the way I look and how I feel welcomed yes or no is always with me. And it’s ok. I’m not bothered as I was in my late teens, when I was suffering from a severe eating disorder. I’m not bothered as I was when I was a ten year old girl running from my bullies home from school, hearing the harsh words of how useless and ugly I was. And since it it part of my past it’s a part of me and I include my wounds and turn them into curiosity, I test them out one after the other. And so far they are still here, maybe not visible to the eye but inside of me. And today I see all my wounds as gifts, connecting me with other people, making me who I am.
