"I am a masterpiece." She's always embraced her curves, but her lymphedema diagnosis turned her into a model activist.
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00:00When I started dating, or being around guys,
00:03a lot of men were not open to me being different.
00:08They would look at me funny or ask my friend,
00:11like, you know, what's wrong with her legs?
00:13♪♪
00:23Every day, get in front of your mirror, butt naked...
00:27Yes!
00:28...and proclaim that I am a masterpiece.
00:31My name is Carmen Renée, and F-pretty.
00:34Life is short, so you better eat the cake, too.
00:37♪♪
00:44When people do ask me about my legs,
00:46and I tell them that I have lymphedema,
00:48most people have no idea what that is.
00:51I compare it to walking around,
00:53like, with a scarlet letter on your chest.
00:55♪♪
01:06That was the aha moment, because the answer is,
01:09I hate my body because some ridiculous beauty standard
01:13is telling me to.
01:14I want to have my cake and eat it, too.
01:16I want to be a big girl and be confident
01:19and be curvy and be healthy and, you know,
01:22be fat and be happy.
01:23All of these things are very possible.
01:25♪♪
01:31It's just a very free and open place for me to post
01:36and embrace my body, all of my body.
01:40There's a lot of lingerie and implied nudity
01:44because I think that it's important
01:46that big people are normalized,
01:49not just in clothes, but outside of clothes, too.
01:52I want to show people, women especially,
01:55you can feel sexy, you can feel loved,
01:59and you can embrace, you know, every inch or every roll
02:03or every dimple of cellulite just how you are today.