WEBVTT - Finally! A Show About a Tik Tok Viral Plus-Size Boutique Owner 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.960 It's three point fifty eight am, and the first thing 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.039 I do is thank God out loud, and I asked 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.880 him to use me throughout the day, to cover me 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:17.200 and to guide me. Then get my water and start 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:22.480 my day. I check all my emails. Then I go 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.639 to all my social media platforms and I check all 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.680 of the comments, all the new comments that may have 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.800 came in, especially if there's any trolls or anybody leaving 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.000 any kind of negative comments, I just delete them. I 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:45.760 don't entertain them anymore. I spend majority of my time there, 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.720 about two to three hours, it depending on if I 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.720 have a viral video or not. Then I get up 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:57.440 and I get dressed for today, and I split my time. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:02.720 My time is split between the warehouse and the mall. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.920 If I'm going to the warehouse, I usually leave. Which 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.880 I'm going to the warehouse today, I usually leave around 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.240 a thirty nine, And if I'm going to the boutique, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:18.920 I usually leave around nine nine. And that's my day. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.400 This is finally a show about a woman who sells 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.000 plus size formal wear, and she's gone viral on TikTok 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.600 A bunch summer. Lucille runs a shop called Juicy body 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.440 goddess and she's in Charlotte, North Carolina. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:41.640 So the client she's coming in at nine am this morning, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.760 and what we do is we kind of prep. We 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.000 come in maybe between. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.560 Usually an hour before. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.200 So what we do is we have a questionnaire so 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.640 we can kind of get an ideal of what they need. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:01.840 Lucky us, this morning, she has she said anything, so 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.400 we really have to wait till she get here to 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.720 try to fill her personality and see what she really 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:07.880 means when she say any. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:09.560 We have her sigh. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.600 So this morning, this prep is a little different because 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.000 we don't have a lot of information about her, which 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:20.040 is not common. Most people put in what they want, 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.760 what they're looking for. A lot of people don't know 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.720 themselves that much. I know that sounds crazy, but they 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.240 really come in here very complex and frustrated because they 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.680 don't know what their body fit, they don't know what 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:38.880 they want, they don't understand how to dress their plus 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.800 sized body. So we kind of have to do like 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.160 a serious question there. So this is probably going to 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.320 be this case because she put like really plan answers, 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.080 so we actually go into it goes deeper into just 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.359 trying to find them addressed, like what are your insecurities 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:57.200 about your body? 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.639 What are you trying to enhance? 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.120 Are you trying to not I don't like using a 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:07.839 word hide, but what are you trying to kind of 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.760 not show off? Because all of us, every human on 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.959 this earth has some type of insecurity. I don't care 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.760 Beyonce has insecurities. Okay, Beyonce it I don't like her ears, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.720 you know, So everybody have in securities. So you know, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.640 everybody's not in the right space in their life to 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.640 flop their insecurity. So we kind of have to be 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.760 a little of a psychiatrist and and try to figure 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.880 out what they need, what they want, what they're looking for. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.040 So this one should be a little challenging, but I 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.920 love challenges, so bring it on. My name is Summer 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.960 Lucille and I am the owner and founder of Juicy Bodyguddess, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.560 a plus sized boutique located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.120 we also have an online presence. My journey, there was 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:04.480 a lot of blood, sweat, tears, trauma, hill lifeing, lifing, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.640 even the tears and the pain. Starting in twenty eleven, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:15.440 after losing my mother, losing my corporate job, ventured off 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.440 to trying to make my dreams and living my dreams 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:24.800 and make an impact on people and start a revolution 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.360 of some type. I was voted most likely to start 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.440 a revolution in high school, and here I am trying 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:36.039 to start a revolution for women and this pushing making 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.120 them feel better about them self and confidence. I am 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.880 from Columbus, Ohio. I'm a buck eye. I've been in 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.200 Charlotte for about seventeen years. So I started my business 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.920 in twenty eleven. I did hair accessories in fashion from 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:57.600 size two to ten. And in twenty sixteen is when 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.960 it just hit me, I'm plus sized and I can't 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.520 fit anything in my store. I can't fit anything, and 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:12.280 I had to heal and I had to come to terms. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.480 You're not gonna ever be skinny. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.960 Stop doing these toxic diets. Be happy in who you are, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.440 be comfortable in who you are. And not until I 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.080 was there in that space is when I was comfortable 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.680 with being plus size. That's when I said, this is 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.640 who I am. And there's so many women that need 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.280 that healing as well. So I think twenty sixteen was 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.839 a very pivoting point in my life where you know, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.640 I'm kind of heal was healing from my mother loss 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.120 and getting in the swing of being an entrepreneur and 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:53.799 understanding myself having the worst heartbreak after eight years of breakup. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.320 So and that was so much trauma I went through. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.360 And I was just like, I'm happy and who I am, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.240 and I'm gonna do plus size. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.920 It's a need for it. It was just yes all 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:09.000 across the board. Yeah. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.280 What made me fall in love with this store is 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.600 the store front, literally the front, the glass. I love 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.839 open glass, the big doors, the chandelier. I think this 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:28.960 is three thousand square feet and we have the accessories 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.520 in the center, the first display table, and then in 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.960 the back. That's the second thing I fell in love 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.679 with is the mirror. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:37.320 It's like. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.120 The whole walls mirror. So I love mirrors. If you 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.480 go to my house, I'm infatuating mirrors too. It has 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.520 six stressing rooms. I take a lot of pride in 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.480 my window display like every season, like I'm changing over 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.960 to Saint Patty's Day here in the second so you'll 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:59.400 see all green easter. Like I'm very I take pride 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.960 into my my window. I'm always on pinchers trying to 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:08.760 find other windows, displays and ideals. Then I have plus 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.080 sized mannequins. I want to use every square footage as 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.360 a business owner. That's what you have to do, right, 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.120 But I want it because we're plus sized bodies. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:17.960 It can't. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.000 I get so frustrated. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:25.480 Walking through stores and just physically bumping into stuff because 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.440 I'm a bigger body. So it's enough space where you 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.600 can walk in, but it's also enough where I'm using 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:33.720 my square footage. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.480 So it's a balance I have to do. Hey, how 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:38.800 you doing, Come on in. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.120 Welcome to Juicy Body gouid Us where you gotta be 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.480 too something to do something? How you doing good? 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:46.920 Are you all my nine o'clock? 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.880 Okay, what are you going to? 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:55.600 Oh you're a prim she's a Prime cassidy. Oh it's 0:07:55.600 --> 0:08:00.360 says formal on there Prime. That's even better. No, that's okay, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.640 that's fine. We were just like we like we like 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:04.360 crime better. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:10.080 So yeah, okay, let's uh. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.560 Y'all more than welcome to look around before before we start. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.720 I went viral for saying when welcoming customers, you gotta 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:20.480 be too something. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.200 To do something. And it's so funny. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.680 A lady came in yesterday and I was in the 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.000 back trying to get ready for prom today and. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:27.560 She comes in. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:28.960 She's like, I just. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.280 I'm not two hundred of pounds. Please don't kick me out. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.640 I'm just here to donate for the prom for prom girls. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.760 She was sock. I'm just like, we love the one 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.120 something too. I know the social media and it's some videos. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.360 I'm kicking them out, but but I would never. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:46.920 You know, I love everybody. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:47.560 I just love. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.440 But it's so funny how the when something's coming in like, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.360 I'm not too something, but please. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.240 What's your first name? 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:56.480 Love? 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:02.800 Our money, our money from Gary, Indiana came to visit me. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.080 Is that not a beautiful? Beautiful? And I'm in Charlotte, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:06.760 North Carolina. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.760 Just a reminder, that's not no little skipping hot that's 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.840 a flight or one hundred hours in a car? 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.160 Did y'all fly or drive? 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:16.560 Y'all drove? 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:17.000 How far? 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:24.319 How many hours y'all love me? Oh my goodness? 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:33.000 She wrote eleven hours to sevening today. She picked the trumpet, 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.280 she picked the A line, and she picked the column 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:42.600 straight down. So even though she picked these three, I'm 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.559 still gonna throw a ball dress in there, and I'll 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.000 probably still throw in a mermaid again. These are young girls. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.040 Nobody knows what they want at sixteen seventeen eighteen. They 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:58.000 may think they do, Honey, you don't. So I give 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.560 her what she wants. I even go into the colors 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.400 that she's looking for. But it will amaze you how 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:09.520 many times they leave out of here with the opposite 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.640 of what they came in looking for, because again, they 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.600 never really even tried on a lot of these different styles. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.280 So I want them to try something new and different, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.360 and so I'm just going to this section. I have 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:25.199 every dress. We have hundreds of them, every color from 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.480 size ten to thirty two, and we have them by style. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.360 So that's why you see this pole here. This is 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.000 going to be our pole where we push out to 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.600 the floor, hang up the dresses and make sure that 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.480 we kind of stay organized because it can get real hectic. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:45.520 These dresses are heavy. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:52.400 There are a lot of material and your arms will burn, and. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.000 They're really high quality, so they have weight to them. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.880 And lifting these things up five, ten, fifteen for one 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.480 client and you got another one coming in another hour, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.160 and everybody want a different color, everybody's a different size. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.360 But I wouldn't change it for the world. This is 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.840 what I was born to do. Gus is so adorable 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:13.080 to me. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.240 Look at the are you kidding me? 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.320 The ribbon on the sleeve, the corset, the bony, the sequence, 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.440 oh my god, the beating like when I seen. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.560 Her one of the I love just seeing her, pink yelp, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.760 actually so excited. I'm just here. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.360 You want peak and tried to do. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:43.680 I bought you one too, all right, you ready, baby? Start? 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.679 My prom was uh, my prom was terrible. And I 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.959 tell people like these girls are actually healing the little 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:05.400 fat teenager inside of me. I had a date first 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.840 finding address, and I was like, I wasn't even that big. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:08.720 I was like a twelve. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.720 Like back then that was a thirty. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.120 Trying to find formal wear at a size twelve fourteen 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.280 was just out of this world. And I thought I 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.760 was fat. I was the fattest of all my friends. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.760 Guy asked me. I'm known this guy since elementary, right, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.280 we never dated, but he liked me and I. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.280 Liked him, but we didn't they you know, we're kids. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.439 So he asked me, like, you want to go to prom? 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.800 And I'm like okay. He was kind of popular. I 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.400 was kind of popular too, even though I was a 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.079 fat girl. He was like do you want to go 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.000 to prom with me? I'm like, yeah, sure, you know 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.720 he was cool even when people tease me, he was 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.520 staying up for me. He was a nice guy. So 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.200 about two days before, I believe, or the day before, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.880 like I'm not going to prom, I'm like, what happened? 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:01.600 I drove myself, I took pictures with my family, drove myself, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:08.680 went to prom, and I got there and it was 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.800 just five of us, like four of my friends. We 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.160 hung out, we did everything together, and they were very popular. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.720 All four of them was on Homecoming court popular right, 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:26.760 and he's with one of them to this day. I 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:37.280 have no clue one Sepoe or I have to go 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:43.600 live on Instagram too. Instagram, I neglect them. Sometimes I 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.160 build a community like these hundred people I know them now. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.600 We'll have sometimes it can get up to like four 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.720 or five depending that's if it's once she started coming 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.920 out and people looking, they'll start joining. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.120 But like, this is like my core group. You know, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.040 they're like sisters. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.920 So okay, love, I. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.680 Know this is gonna sound weird, and step in for 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.120 me cause I don't wanna get this on camera. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.960 Uh, do me a favor and lean forward and push 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.120 all of your breast. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.600 Tissue on the side both inside your and then push 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.960 it over and up there you go, and then hold 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.560 it up just like that for me. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:26.200 Push that side over for me to measure. Then on 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.360 an hour, I know you. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:39.280 Got your mama. Welcome to that broad blessed in a curse. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.280 Okay, I'm tying it pretty tight cause I wanna hold 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.280 them tire ties up. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:15:00.280 Oh let me let me actually welcome that barrel. Baby. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:06.960 Oh my god, oh my god, come out here, Oh 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.600 my god. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.560 She came here for blue and pink, and I said, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:20.280 challenge accepted. Wow, you look like a beautiful princess. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.560 She came here for pink and blue. And guess what 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.680 I gave her? Orange? That is so beauty. How how 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.360 you feel? I love it? 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.800 You love it? 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.960 You are pretty, so beautiful. It's got a split. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:43.000 You know. It's not the butterflies. I love the details 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.400 of the butterflies. It's so goddess. It's unbelievable. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.440 I never thought about like orange. This is so surreal. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.680 She and You're like, oh my gosh, that. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:54.440 Is so pretty. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.760 This is why we wanted to come here, to give 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.360 her opportunity to try on so many different dresses, so 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.120 you don't have that. I got, you know, regular stories. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:10.280 I yes, I love the. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.040 That's so beautiful. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.640 Yeah I do too. Oh, come on loving me on ti. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.680 And then you surprised me with the next dress. I 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.800 don't care who you are. They're all bardous. These are 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.520 all dresses. I haven't seen anybody in it. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.880 Yeah, we just got so that's a grandmother. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.480 I'm just I'm excited. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.840 That's her first prom. So I had three, three girls, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.240 so they all went to Prome. So now this is 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.560 my first grand baby going through the proms. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.359 Another dress, we got, another dress. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:53.720 Don't you love a gorgeous Oh my god, she's ye. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.920 Tell me she don't look like you all day? Don't 0:16:58.960 --> 0:16:59.920 she look so good? 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.360 Love stress? Oh my gosh, it's so full down. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:06.840 You feel like a princident. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.160 All our cheeks are gonna hurt. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.439 You're smiling so big. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:17.240 Oh my baby, it is worth eleven hours for sure. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:18.760 Do it over again. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:21.919 Oh I'm so happy. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.119 Two weeks ago I had to. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:28.680 It was nasty. 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.719 I had to really put my foot down for the 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.800 mother and the grandmother. They was tearing this baby down 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.920 like we told her to go on a diet. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:44.240 Two years ago. What what are you talking about? What 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:45.960 are you talking about? 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:46.320 What? 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.080 She's seventeen years old, you was telling her two years fifteen. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.159 She's supposed to be worried about so much more, you know. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.720 And they drove far Where did they drive from? I 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:57.560 can't remember where. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.520 They drove a couple of states over to come here 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.080 to dress her. They wanted her to wear black because 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.520 it makes her look slimmer. It was just all the 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:11.240 old school, traditional sick diet skinny and it was so 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:17.760 What happens is the grandmother passes on her insecurities onto 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.000 the daughter. The daughter does it to the granddaughter, and 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.119 it's a vicious sick cycle. She said, this is my daughter. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.200 I said, this is my house. You're not gonna talk 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.880 to her like that in my presence. The daughter tried 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.920 to pull her back, like you're sitting here talking about 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.159 her like she's a dog like and you could see it, 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:38.840 and the grandmother was just evil. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.840 You could just see it in the air. It was 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:41.520 so heavy. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.919 The grandmother walked out first, and it was just it 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.560 was just like I usually tell the mom or the 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.800 grandmother to chill out, pull them to the side, but 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.120 they they were lost from the grandmother down, her great 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.560 great grandmother probably did it to her, and they just 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.840 pass it down to each other over and old, like, no, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:01.640 it stops here. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.200 And then when don't come out till you come out 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:14.000 with your decision? Okay, all right? Which one? 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:14.560 Oh? 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.200 You picked the orange one? 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:18.920 But a good decision? 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.200 What a good decision? 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:23.200 Now? 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.840 Tell me why did you decide to go with this one? 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.359 I just feel like it was made to fit me. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.440 It went on so easily. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.600 It wasn't a color I was like expecting to love, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:36.760 but once I saw it on, I was like, I 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.800 can't let it go, and I kept thinking about it, 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.800 even with all the other pretty dresses on. And then 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:47.320 there's butterflies, and you can't go wrong. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:53.720 Yes, princess and butterflies go hand in hand. Yes, this 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:55.160 is This is. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.879 A teenager who said that they came in will not 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:08.320 and she wanted pink. She wanted pink, and I need 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.159 to have I might put this as one of my 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:15.160 special powers, convincing teenagers to try different colors. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:15.800 That's it. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.760 I'm putting it on my resume as one of my 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.680 special powers. But yet I think you made. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.560 The perfect decision. Congratulations, Let's get the bass start. 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:36.040 If I could go back in time and my prom 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:41.120 and have a experience like this where I can go into. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.440 A store and look at beautiful dresses. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.800 And I can fit all of them, that would have 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:51.560 changed the whole That would have changed a lot. I 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.359 would have probably been a little bit more confident. I 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.080 would have been probably better in picking guys that I 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:01.200 was dating, and just would have been a little better. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.680 Probably would have went on so many diets, because that's 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:05.080 the main reason I wanted to go on a diet, 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.800 so I can just be normal and fit in normal clothes. 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:11.960 That's for me. Other women have different stories and different reasons. Well, 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:13.960 for me, I just wanted to be in que clothes 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:16.840 because I love fashion. So I think I would have 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.480 been It would have been a different a different experience. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.440 But I appreciate all of my experience. 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.240 I appreciate that because out of that pain and that trauma, 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:27.600 I was able. I was able to create this, and 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:29.679 out of that pain and that trauma, I'm able to 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.119 connect with the girls and I know what they've been 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.560 they're going through. Right If I didn't know what they 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:36.119 were going through, I don't think I would have that 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:37.440 deep connection like I do. 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:40.840 Everybody wanted the orange. 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.680 You know, it's five eighty. 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:50.679 Nine, but you got to keep your car because somebody 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:51.719 donated all of it. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:22:01.600 So y'all, I ain't paying nothing today. Oh God, God 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:19.560 is so good. M Victoria Victoria donated everything. She's such 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.120 a stright ice student. 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:33.680 It's like amazing. I didn't have the money to get 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:34.560 her drive. 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:37.800 And my parents helped out. 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:39.320 They drove us down here. 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:42.240 It feels so good. 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:44.040 It's not a single. 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:48.080 Mom, and it especially like driving this far. 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:51.240 It's just she was amazing. 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:54.679 I was worried about even being able to get it, 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.520 but the fact that people were just nice enough to 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:01.400 care that much and donate just makes me really appreciate 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.920 it due And I just can't believe it. I never 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:09.080 thought this would happened, that I came off home with 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:09.879 this dress. 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:15.360 I have hundreds of thank you cards, and this one 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:16.400 is special to me. 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.200 And I'm gonna tell you why. Yanna came in and. 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:29.440 She her mom passed away about two or three weeks 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:33.359 before her prom, and she came in with her big sister, 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.960 and uh, she wanted to, you know, get a dressed, 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:40.919 but money was a little shy. 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:42.800 Of course, a lot. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.520 Has happened, and her sister was like, well, I get 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.840 paid on Friday. Next Friday, can you hold a dress? 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.359 And I'm like, I hold it. I usually don't, but 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:54.280 I'll hold it. 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:54.679 You know. 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:59.400 I'll give them to my poker face, right, so I 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:02.160 they end up even I chase them down the mall 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:07.359