Plus-Size-Diva

Clanethia!!!

After much debate, going back and forth over the first round of submissions, of which I would have easily picked the first 6 Featured Plus-Size-Divas, I have selected Clanethia as the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva!

Congratulations!!!

Clanethia’s entry was inspiring! I can’t wait to get her page up! Stay tuned! I will make an announcement when it’s ready!

Please re-enter the contest, which I will be posting shortly, if you did not win! It was so close and there were so many great entries!

Stay tuned!!!

Today is the last day to enter the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva of the Month Contest!

Get your entry in!

I have gotten a couple entries that are incomplete, please be sure to send all of the following.

To enter send:

- Your Name
- Your Email (*this will be kept private)
- A Bio
- And a letter about what makes you a Plus-Size-Diva

If you are selected as the winner for that month, you can submit a photo of yourself, please keep it tasteful. I will create a page, not a post, that is specifically for you. I will put your picture on it, and any information about yourself, whether you are a model, you want to be a model, whether you design plus size clothing, or if you are just a great role model for women and girls. I will leave your page up for the remainder of the year as well.

*Please understand that I do not want this to become a dating game or anything like that. This will be a way for you to put yourself out there to get a little extra publicity. I will monitor posts and delete any that are tasteless.

If you are interested in being the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva you have until midnight January 25th to enter! Who will be the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva?! Will it be YOU?

You have only 3 days left for your chance to be the 1st Featured Plus Size Diva of the Month! Get your entry in!

I have gotten a couple entries that are incomplete, please be sure to send all of the following.

To enter send:

- Your Name
- Your Email (*this will be kept private)
- A Bio
- And a letter about what makes you a Plus-Size-Diva

If you are selected as the winner for that month, you can submit a photo of yourself, please keep it tasteful. I will create a page, not a post, that is specifically for you. I will put your picture on it, and any information about yourself, whether you are a model, you want to be a model, whether you design plus size clothing, or if you are just a great role model for women and girls. I will leave your page up for the remainder of the year as well.

*Please understand that I do not want this to become a dating game or anything like that. This will be a way for you to put yourself out there to get a little extra publicity. I will monitor posts and delete any that are tasteless.

If you are interested in being the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva you have until January 25th to enter! Who will be the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva?! Will it be YOU?

*Please note, I am not affiliated with a model agency. I am just offering an extra arena to get your voice heard.

I have gotten lots of emails from plus size ladies about being able to promote themselves as plus-size models as well as designers. I wanted to help but didn’t know what I could really do..

I have been thinking about this for a while. I want to help and I have come up with a way to.

I am going to start a Featured Plus-Size-Diva of the month contest. To enter you will need to supply me with the following:

- Your Name
- Your Email (*this will be kept private)
- A Bio
- And a letter about what makes you a Plus-Size-Diva

If you are selected as the winner for that month, you can submit a photo of yourself, please keep it tasteful. I will create a page, not a post, that is specifically for you. I will put your picture on it, and any information about yourself, whether you are a model, you want to be a model, whether you design plus size clothing, or if you are just a great role model for women and girls. I will leave your page up for the remainder of the year as well.

*Please understand that I do not want this to become a dating game or anything like that. This will be a way for you to put yourself out there to get a little extra publicity. I will monitor posts and delete any that are tasteless.

If you are interested in being the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva you have until January 25th to enter! Who will be the 1st Featured Plus-Size-Diva?! Will it be YOU?

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I’ve noticed something that quite irritating. The thing is, I don’t know if it’s because of my own insecurities that I notice it, and if in fact it even has anything to do with being plus size…

People don’t look me in the face when they talk to me. I have found that people look past me, over me, or just not at me in general. To me eye contact is such a strong communication on it’s own. I find it extremely insulting and hurtful that people do this. That doesn’t mean I want to be stared down either…lol So for any of my friends that read my blog…don’t get any wise ideas!

The reason I wonder if this is associated with my size, mind you this is my mind here…I can connect dots that aren’t even in the same book! LOL but anyways, I have ‘thin’ friends and when they are around, I notice this ‘phenomenon’ even more. I can remember standing next to a girlfriend of mine during a conversation that I thought I was a part of…apparently I was wrong…because although we were all talking and cutting up, no one would look directly at me.

I guess it would be different if I was a horrible person, with the personality of a wet washcloth or some grotesque growth on my face that no one wanted to be caught staring at….but I can cut up with the best of them. Granted I’m no social butterfly, but I’m not a complete outcast either…although I wonder sometimes..

I tell myself to get over it, but there are times that I want to scream “HELLO, Do you not f&(#ing see me! I am standing right here!!

So as you can see….my squeaky little annoying, paranoid, insecure voice has been screaming in my head. One day I am going to squash that little bug. One day!

It’s been a while since I have had the chance to post to my blog. Thought I would take a minute and catch up.

I haven’t been to the gym in a month or two….I let myself get discouraged and have had a hard time getting back into the swing of it. I will get there…

I’ve been working on being comfortable in my own skin. Who would have thought gaining self confidence would be so damn hard. One bad thought and it’s 10 steps backwards. One kind one and it’s a fricken babystep forward. Sort of hard to gain much ground at this rate…it would be much easier if someone would bottle it up and sell it..I would be first in line!

We went and had family pictures done this weekend…can you believe it has been almost 7 years since the last one! I am sure you can tell how much I dislike pictures…figured we’d better do it before my youngest who is 5….grows up wondering why she isn’t in our pictures! How pitiful is that!

I’ve finally set me up a myspace profile! as well as a Facebook profile. Not that I have a lot of time to do either of them! But thought it would be fun.

Work has been keeping me busy. I have a seminar at the end of this week, love going to them! It’s work and a vacation all in one!

Taking it one day at a time…

Big, Beautiful and Bold!

If you are in or around Tennessee and are interested in modeling. You should check this out!

Sunday November 11, 2007
4:00pm - 8:00pm
Executive Plaza
3003 Airways Blvd. Suite 3003
Memphis, TN 38131

Tell your friends, tell your cousins, tell your MOM!

Full figures needs models for advertising and promotion, so we can continue growth. This will include modeling for our clothing company :

Curvy Figures * inexpensive clothing for the Plus-Sized woman with STYLE!*

*If that’s you feel free to come!*
See you there

Join us on our official website:
http://www.fullfigures.com/

I am sure there are many fans out there of Queen Latifah. She’s an amazing woman. I got this email from AOL Black Voices and wanted to share the link with you: Queen Latifah’s Style Evolution

It just goes to show, that no matter your size, you can do anything!