Famous For Nothing

30/07/2022

***REPOST***

Lauren Chamberlain is one of the best softball players in the world, and as good a role model as any kid of any gender could ask for. She decided to pose n**e for ESPN. First, if you think this is pornographic, get off my timeline. Second, here's why she did it: "I said yes for the girls around the world who might see the issue and see someone who looks like them -- someone who's thicker, bigger, not as jacked as the typical athlete -- and that could give them that boost to love their bodies. Any time I went against my body and didn't give it what it needed in an attempt to achieve a societal norm, I let myself down. Sometimes, in high school and early college when I was dealing with insecurities about my body, not eating was disrespectful to my body. Not giving it what it needs to perform in order to achieve a certain look. If we're being honest, it just became stupid at a certain point. You're after this unattainable look, this Instagram look, and it's not achievable. I still deal with that insecurity. How am I not shaped and curved like that Instagram model? But you know what? She can't hit a ball like me or move like me. She can't do what I can do.”

07/06/2022

Make it. Write it. Create it. Do the thing that inspires YOU. Even if it’s something that no one else is doing, especially if no one else is doing it. Your ideas and words have value and power, but only when you put them positively into the world.

30/05/2022

Thank you will never be big enough. 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

27/05/2022

Withdrawn, confused, quiet, disturbed. These are all key words being used to describe the 18 year who committed the heinous acts in Uvalde. We wanted signs. Those are the signs. The amount of ways that kids are able to disengage with society are climbing by the day. They would rather watch other kids live life on a screen, then go live a life. A lot of adults can’t handle social media responsibly, so how do we expect kids to? Children do not need more false social interactions. They need more actual human connections that are meaningful and intentional.

25/05/2022

My heart breaks for the tragedy continuing to unfold here in my home state. It’s not supposed to be like this. We were supposed to do better. We are supposed to give you a place to safely get an education, so that you can change the world. I’m sorry this is the world we are showing you exists. We should have done better and I’m sorry that this is what you are given. My heart is with Uvalde.

08/03/2022

Happy International Women's Day to all the women fighting to change the world perceives our strengths. We are all only as strong as the women we stand with, support and nourish. Heres to another year lifting each other up!

01/03/2022

Three years. This little project began three years ago today. To say the road has been easy would be a complete lie. On the first year anniversary we were in a tornado, by the second we were in the middle of a pandemic and now on the third we are watching a war. It's often hard to remain hopeful. For three years I've been so hard on myself for this project not being further along, not being more successful. It's often hard to give yourself grace in these moments when you feel a purpose so deeply in your heart. You want others to care like you do. To see the world in a way that you desire to make such an impact. It's often unbearable to think that you aren't doing enough, or changing the world enough. It can feel hopeless and quite often I ask myself what's the point?

Today also marks the beginning of Women's History Month. I know every woman I admire in history probably has those moments. Every woman I know currently has them. So how do you make history? How do you change the narrative you're telling yourself? Full honesty I don't know. I do know that I'm in no way ready to give up, I believe great things are coming.

This month will be the first opportunity I have had to talk to a group of students in a classroom in two years. I am so thankful everyday I get to continue with this. Despite all the setbacks I know that this is what I'm supposed to be doing. As lonely as the journey sometimes is, I know it's worth it. So here is to another year of successes, setbacks, failures and hope. Can't wait to get started.

Thank you to everyone who has supported this in the last three years. You are so appreciated. ❤️

22/02/2022

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I became a teenager in the 90s.

Where the models were stick thin.
Curves were disgusting.
B***s were shameful.
And anything over a size 2 a disgrace.
Then the 2000s brought tall glamous thin Victoria's Secret models that told me tan, tall, and cup D was desired.

Now at 38, I see how toxic my relationship with my body is.

I see young women today embracing their bodies. All the shapes and sizes. I am baffled how they can be so comfortable in their skin. Then I see companies using models that look like me.

But the damage has been done.

I hate my body right now.
And have in the past.

I have tried to throw it up, starve it, and exercise it all away. To be like them. The women in the magazines I read in my teens.

I look at my body now with the extra weight packed on by meds and age. Three new scars reminding me how sick my body was. The stretch marks from carrying my sons.

My clothes don't fit. I try to shop for replacements but it ends in tears and dispare. I can't see beauty and femininity. I only see the stick thin image burned into my brain of what beauty looks like.

I am told I am beautiful. Sexy. Hot. Desired.

I struggle to see it. And believe it.
And I want too. I really do.

Ridding myself of the lies I have heard for 30 years isn't easy. Especially when I still compare myself to others who are thinner than me.

I am sharing this now because it is heavy. It's exhausting. It's all consuming at times.

Me aching to love myself wholeheartedly and at the same time hating the way my body looks. Tears are forming as I write this.

Sure losing weight will make me feel better. It won't solve the problem or heal the issue.

I don't know how to work on loving my body.
But I know sharing this is the first step.

02/10/2021

There is only one you, and that you is doing the best it can in a tough world. Give yourself some grace this weekend ❤️

27/07/2021

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Simones Biles has already won. Tokyo will have no say in the matter. These Olympics will not be the last word. Her professional resume speaks for itself. Her physical prowess, preserved forever. Her athletic achievements, inarguable. We are witnesses. Our eyes themselves have recorded her greatness....

27/07/2021

Even on the world's biggest stage, in the completions biggest moment it's okay to chose yourself. To chose your mental health. So proud of you Simone! Team USA congrats!

This girl survived sexual abuse, became an advocate for young girls being taken advantage of, opened her own gym for young girls training to be gymnasts to ensure their safety, and trained her entire life to become the greatest gymnast in the history of gymnastics.

She's so much more than the sport she has mastered.

12/07/2021

So many times we look around at the world and constantly think how we wish it were different. We sit around and hope that it will magically just change. I am guilty of this. Trying to be the one to change it can be overwhelming. It can feel impossible and often not even worth it. The truth is change starts small. It's starts with ourselves. Taking accountability for your role in this world can allow you to change the world around you. The hope is that small change inspires large changes. It is not enough to simply exist and wish it were different. Become the thing you long for.

11/07/2021

This is how you lift each other up. Helping someone reach their goals and potential in no way diminishes your accomplishments. We are all simply an extension of each other. If I have achieved something, that by sharing my story or offering you a hand, can make you reach your potential then that is an entirely different level of success. Opportunity doesn't come the same way to everyone. Neither does success. Be the one to walk through doors and open them. What a world it would be if we held the door for each other.

22/05/2021

These bags and more will be available Monday!! Let's all be Less Fake Less Filtered together.

22/05/2021

Less Fake, Less Filtered. Our ideas of beauty have become so influenced by the world around us. Social media is telling us that being fake and filtered makes us beautiful. As a makeup artist I spent years making women look beautiful, but I don't know how many times I made them FEEL beautiful. Our hope is that this campaign inspires you to give yourself some grace. Be authentically you. No fake. No filter. Every bag will have a different message of what is beautiful. With each purchase we hope that you will send us your idea of what is beautiful. Please join us in our mission to change the social media standard of beauty.

22/05/2021

Tomorrow is the first day since January of 2020 that we will get to work with a group of kids. To say I'm overwhelmed with emotions is an understatement. I feel so called to live this life and this journey I have a very hard time putting it into words. I hope what you see over the next few days will matter to you, will inspire you and above all else encourage you to support this dream I have. It's a labor of love above all else. Thank you to everyone who supported me in this last year. You have impacted my heart in ways you will never know. Everything I do from here is for you.

19/05/2021

What's your idea of beauty?? Launching Monday! Our brand new canvas makeup bags! Each bag will have a hand written message of what is beautiful written on the back! Each message written by a different beautiful person across the country! Want to send your message of beauty out into the world? Let us know and you can create your very own bag! Buy one send one!

18/05/2021

So excited about our campaign with launching this weekend! In an effort to encourage more social media transparency we will be launching our LESS FAKE, LESS FILTERED campaign. Can't wait for this project to go live and you all to see what we have in store!

15/05/2021

Be kind to yourself in this chaotic world. Trust that there is more.

27/04/2021

It took me a lot longer in life to learn this than it should have. Hurt people hurt people. This isn't only in romantic relationships, but all relationships. You can't possibly be good for someone if you haven't sorted out how to be good for yourself. We encourage to continue your journey to healing.

26/04/2021

We often want people to help us move on. There actually isn't a magic phrase that they can say that can undo all the hurt. You simply have to choose to close that chapter, heal and continue. There is no timeline got healing or closing those wrongs, you just have to keep going.

25/04/2021

We talk a lot of about self accountability when we get the chance to talk to kids. You can't control the way someone responds to you, but you can control the way you respond to them. Knowing and owning our own faults is the first step to letting yourself grow.

Happy Sunday! May this be a week of learning and growing.

22/04/2021

Choosing to quit something is a hard choice. Choosing to quit because it doesn't bring you joy or because it isn't serving you in a healthy way is okay. It's okay to sometimes choose ourselves. To say this just isn't for me. If we don't quit the things that don't serve us, how can we ever find the things that do?

22/04/2021

Happy Wednesday. We hope you are all learning to happy right where you are.

14/04/2021

This is why. This is why I can't wait to go back into schools. This is why we need more accountability and more conversations. This doesn't have to be this way.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article250554704.html

Cook Children’s hospital treated 43 patients who attempted su***de in March, compared to 24 a year earlier. Also, 7 patients died from su***de in 2020, making it the leading cause of traumatic death at Cook.

28/03/2021

Our favorite Sunday Funday t-shirt! Pairs well with sunshine and friends! $28 comment sold and size!

21/03/2021

Happy Sunday Funday y'all! We will be busy uploading all the new shirts today! Check out our newest tequila shirt! Can I get an Amen?

20/03/2021

Anyone who went to High School with me is probably laughing that I would make this shirt. I was definitely a mean girl, I even knew I was mean. I just didn't care. For that moment in time I felt like I had it all, it never occurred to me that life would ever look any different than me just strolling through, privilege in hand. The irony is for most of us, life has this incredible way of humbling us. I've spent a lot of years being humbled. Through failures and divorce and life just not looking like I thought it would. Through all that I learned a lot. I know girls are still mean today. Teenage girls can be brutal and with the constant social media it follows them every where they go. They never get to just turn it off. Someone can be mean to them at school and then follow them into their home through a viral world. If you're a mean girl you suck. 16 year old me sucked too. The good news is you don't have to suck forever. You can grow and change and be better to the world around you.

20/03/2021

TOMORROW!! This is probably one of my favorite shirts we have ever done. Available for purchase tomorrow on our site!

20/03/2021

Can anyone guess what the rest of this shirt says?!? New styles drop this weekend!