When I started fatshion blogging it was on the heels of an
eye opening day at my first Plus North in 2013. I was flattered to have so many
people encourage me to start because they really dug my look. It worked hand in
hand with my ever developing interest in fat politics and fat visibility. I was
intrigued to explore the concept of being a visible fat person and focusing on
the clothes I wore, the way I looked.
My armor.
Through that I have met a lot of great people whom I would
not have otherwise met. But I know that I haven’t jumped in with both feet. I
know that I’m sitting against the wall at the dance here. I found keeping up
with trends, hell being into the trends to begin with, difficult. Often I
didn’t have the time to take the picture. Even more I found that with my job as
a carer I was not wearing anything worth talking about and when I wasn’t at
work I was in my comfy, slobbing out clothes.
Then I injured my back and have since been on long term
sick. For many weeks I wasn’t even able to get out of bed, let alone get dressed.
When I was up and about all I wanted was the bare minimum that was acceptable
for when I hobbled outside on my crutch. Blogging ideas dissipated through my
painkiller haze.
What started out as a potential for adventure very quickly
became a chore. I felt I was missing the mark. It seemed to snowball very
quickly considering that I have blogged for little.
Then I saw a post by my friend Elena where she touched upon
something briefly here that I too had been thinking about. Fashion
blogging is about YOU. What you like, what makes you tick, what you enjoy and
mostly what you look like. Why should I try to be something that I’m not?
No wonder this was all such hard work for me. It wasn’t in
any way authentic to me.
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