Oh my goodness, what an incredible journey this has been. 10 years ago my first ever debut set Sweater Weather for SG was SOTD! It still feels like yesterday that I met @alissa in the cutest and coziest little air bnb in Brooklyn, I can still remember her opening up the door and the big smile she had when she saw me 🖤 I was SO nervous, so shy because this was my first time in front of a camera and just so excited to be there.
When I look back at these photos I am so full of pride, I am genuinely so proud of myself for pushing myself out of my comfort zone and doing something I never thought I was capable of. I had never modeled before, or even been in front of a professional camera that wasn’t for school photos before. But Alissa made the process so easy for me, she was very accommodating and supportive of my modeling despite my inexperience and shyness 🎀
A decade ago if you had told a much younger version of myself that today I would be where I am in life, in this company, I would have never believed you. I was in such a low, bad place back then. I was stuck in an abusive relationship I never saw myself surviving. I had such horrible people around me pretending to be my friends and no support whatsoever from anyone it felt. I almost gave up completely on well, everything. On a whim I decided to apply to SG, then while I was looking for a photographer to shoot my first set with I received an email from Kiley letting me know that Alissa and Radeo were on a photography tour and headed to Brooklyn, the rest is history. None of these people knew what I was going through at the time, but because of them I found purpose, I found a reason to keep going 🌸 I am forever so grateful to all of them.
During my now 10 whole years of being a SuicideGirl I have traveled all across the country, had 16 sets become SOTD, spent a decent amount of time in Los Angeles, I got to live in the SG Mansion where I was given the opportunity to take care of so many incredible women and people from all over the world, I went to my first ComicCon in San Diego working the SG booth, I had SO much fun on this trip with people who are now my closest of friends, I have made lifelong friendships and have worked different positions in SGHQ, currently as the model assist 💫
I am forever so grateful for the life SuicideGirls has enabled me to have today. For the what feels like millions of opportunities they have given me, for the countless amazing current and previous staff for believing in me, for pushing me to keep going, for every path that I have crossed in my journey thus far and for myself for just trying to do something different that ended up changing my life, for the better, forever 💞
