Torrid has given me an amazing opportunity. I can reach out to different girls and help them realize that they are beautiful, too.

Growing up, I had body confidence issues, not really so much because of size but my skin color. I had trouble recognizing that the depth of my skin tone is really beautiful because whenever people referred to a beautiful black-skinned woman, you'd see Beyonce and Rihanna.

I think that the plus-size industry has been great with size diversity, but it hasn't really been great for skin tone diversity.

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