February 7, 2012

Our Plus Icons: Do They Deserve To Be?

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I have seen a growing trend lately. Plus size women that we revere as advocates for the community beginning to lose weight and denounce their former curvy bodies. I wonder if they ever were our advocates? I began writing this piece ready to quote chapter and verse the statements of some of these women to show [...]

My New York Minute at Full Figured Fashion Week … part one

Founder & Executive Producer of FFF Week, Gwen DeVoe & myself

My stay in New York really felt like a New York minute.. Everything went by so fast. I recently had surgery and was under strict orders (from my Z-Twinn Stephanie ,my husband and doctor) to take it easy. I was determined to go. This event was going to be big for me, for all of [...]

What Mia Amber Davis meant to me…

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It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this. I have had to fight back the tears all day and night.  Mia Amber Davis has made her transition to heaven. I first saw Mia in the Ashley Stewart campaigns back in 2007 and friended her on Myspace. I always thought she was beautiful, [...]

Open Letter to Sara Rue

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Losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle is something that is very hard to do. The journey to reach your health and fitness goal can be an emotional one and the decision to embark on the journey should be something that we all should support. Jenny Craig has made an empire on hiring celebrities and [...]

Finding Ophelia Devore

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Family is so very important to me. There are few that you meet that although blood doesn’t bind you together, your spirits certainly do. My best friends mother, Ms. Singh, was one of those people I felt a connection with. During a college course in Theology, she patiently explained the Hare Kishra religion to me. [...]

Gabby Dismissed by Vogue? Let’s Celebrate!

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I know you’re wondering what is there to celebrate? How can one be happy about the most revered fashion magazine brand in the world rejecting Gabourey Sidibe because she is TOO plus? We have to ask ourselves, when has someone of size been seriously considered for a fashion spread in Vogue? Their dismissal is very [...]

Weave Free? Not Me!

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Hi My name is Cassy and I am addicted to Weaves, any form,  any type, I love them all!! I am not ashamed to admit it. I feel that it is my harmless addiction of choice. Now it is not because I don’t have hair of my own, my hair is down my back, I [...]

Is Gossip The Only News We Have?

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Gone are the days of early Hollywood where the press “created” stars, what the publicist spinned was bible law. They gave us what they wanted us to hear and produced starlets and leading men that were considered the best in the biz. Now we have the tabloid journalist, a different breed of reporter that makes [...]


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