The Curvy Model

Hi I'm Mandy!
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I am an aspiring plus-size model trying to make it big in the Fashion world. I love Crystal Renn, photography, fashion, being myself, and making new friends. Let's be friends. :)

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Jun18

Update on my life!

My life has been a lot of work, school, work, school, work, work, outfit photos, work, blog post, school… haha but in all seriousness, that is pretty darn accurate.

I haven’t gone actual grocery shopping in probably 3 weeks… My room is such a mess I hate looking at it, and my outfits have been super lame. It really isn’t that great of a summer so far. However, this weekend is a big deal. I am going to the open call (I was invited to :)) at the Wilhelmina in Philly with my mommy!! haha Yea, I am 21 years old. But my car could simply not make it to Philadelphia.

So tomorrow we will rise at 6, and drive the 5 hours to get to Philly to see if they are actually interested in me, and make sure they are not a scam (charging $1,984,024 for comp cards isn’t cool). I am really not psyching myself out like I did for NYC in January. I have this mentality that whatever happens, happens. If nothing happens I will deal with it.

On a lighter note, Kevin has made my life, seeing him helps me relax soooo much. Because I have been such a stress ball lately! And he is moving like 10 mins from my apt!!! :D So this means we will see each other so much more, and we will start exercising (walking/running) in the morning together! I cannot wait to start feeling good about myself again. It is funny how such a simple work out in the morning can make your day go so much smoother! Especially because I sit at a desk for 8 hours… Then I go to class for another 4 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Life. It will start getting better! Slowly but surely! <3 You guys! Your nice comments brighten my day.

Oh and lastly, my photoshoot from a week ago was soooooo amazing, I really cannot wait to share the pictures with you! I haven’t gotten any back yet, and probably wont for a while. But thats because they will be so darn good! :)

Ok, now I am leaving. Time to work! <3333

P.S. Did I mention I am now a member of INDEPENDANT FASHION BLOGGERS! :) You are going to see some cool changes around here everyone! Maybe even a new web design… Especially for me. Oops, did I say that out loud? ;)

6 notes #life #work #outfits #clothing #modeling

May27

May17

My Day Today

7:00AM- Wake up because my sister is being obnoxiously loud getting ready for school.

7:30AM- Fall back to sleep

8:00AM- Wake up for breakfast: my dad made me the best egg concoction today. Hashbrown’s, leftover steak, onions, eggs, and some horseradish sauce! SOOOO GOOD.

8:20AM- Leave for class (its raining!)

9:00AM- Class starts, I cannot keep my eyes open

11:03AM- I thought class was over, but he still had more to say.

12:00PM- Class was over, I got some Arby’s and headed to work.

1:00PM- Get to work

6:00PM- Get out of work

6:39PM- Get back to my Apt (realize I cannot parallel park for the life of me)

7:00PM- Start cleaning my room, and forget about eating dinner.

9:21PM- On to do some Freelance for a few hours…

Did I mention I have a test on Wednesday, along with my sisters confirmation I have to go home for. Oh, and I have to put in 30 hours of freelance this week. Have to make a few prints for some friends. Then a photo shoot Friday, and Saturday.

STRESSSSS but oddly I love being super stressed, it helps me get stuff done.  Wow, its only Monday. How is your week so far???

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May14

Heading to work in a few. It is FRIDAY!!! I can&#8217;t believe it. I am bringing my puppy to work for a little bit! My friends have wanted to meet her! :} I love that we can have dogs at work! Then I am out with the best friend for a few drinks! :) TGIF! I will take a picture of how shady my car looks now, my dad made a new window hahaaaaa&#8230; I am soooo shady!

Heading to work in a few. It is FRIDAY!!! I can’t believe it.

I am bringing my puppy to work for a little bit! My friends have wanted to meet her! :} I love that we can have dogs at work!

Then I am out with the best friend for a few drinks! :) TGIF!

I will take a picture of how shady my car looks now, my dad made a new window hahaaaaa… I am soooo shady!

5 notes #work #life #drinks #its hot and humid

May11

Hello Friends:

I thought a long post was due. I personally am not a fan of the super long posts, call me lazy but I usually keep my posts short and sweet. But there are a few of you who like the longer posts so here it goes!! :D

School: I have been busy busy busy! As most of you know I have finished up my junior year of college, and it is now summer. However, I am taking summer classes, basically I am trying to get school over as fast as I can. :) The summer classes are fine, currently I am only in one. It is a three week course called Casino and Gaming, it is really interesting, and the teacher is awesome. Funny how a teacher can affect the class so much.

Work: I work in the best company in the world, I have been working on getting a full time position for the summer but it is sort of difficult right now. Mostly because I will only be full time for the summer then I have to go part time for next semester, then back to full time. Also, the question is where do I want to work in the company? I have a lot of ideas, but I am not 100% sure what I want to do the next few months…I am one of the youngest ppl who work there, although the company is super young! Susan, the owner, is only 25 (or 24,not exactly sure)! But anyways, it has been stressful figuring out what I want to do.

New Apt: I moved into a new apartment! It is really cute, and once I get my stuff completely unpacked and organized I will take some photos, I didn’t really take any nice photos of my last place because my room was tiny, and not worth talking about haha. But this place is lovely. And I live 3 blocks from this. Oh and my new roommate has two little kitties Gonzo, and Mo! Pictures will be up soon!

Internet/E-mail: I still do not have working internet in my new place but I am working on it!! OH and I pride myself in answering EVERY e-mail I have ever gotten from my beloved followers. HOWEVER, my email was broken for, as far as I know, a few months! I deeply apologize for that! So if you still feel like sending me an e-mail you can do so!! Here it is mandy(at)thecurvymodel(dot)com  « I do the weird parenthesis because if I don’t I will get a lot of spam! So just enter it in as a normal email. :) Also, you can ask me questions here, and follow me on Twatter ;)

Modeling: I have been trying to set some stuff up for the summer. You all have seen my new shoot cluster of images. Other than that and my Saks modeling gig through my agency my work has been really slow. BUT an awesome designer from NY fashion week contacted me on model mayhem asking me to model some of her new swim suits! She is sending some samples to Torrid too!! I would be the girl on the clothing tags!!! :DDD I am not getting excited until I get the suits in hand though. And I have a shoot on May 22nd with a cool new photographer! So expect some new images soon! :}

Photography: Although my modeling work has been slow, I have picked up my photography work!! I did my first engagement shoot with some of my dear friends :). I am still learning more and more about photography, but my friends make the whole process so fun! I have a flickr, facebook fan page, and a website. <website is still new!

LASTLY, my parents new puppy Lily: She is probably the cutest thing on the earth. I will post pictures later today of her, I have some edited. Lots of her and her sisters too! :) So you have that to look forward to! <3

PS Those little links in my post are not spam, they are links I made!

I hope you are having a fabulous day! :D

7 notes #life #me #curvy #lady #model #student #photographer

Mar21

Hey there beautiful people! I hope all is well with you! HAPPY SATURDAY NIGHT! I am hungover a little and got a lot accomplished today. I GOT A PEDICURE! haha I am so ticklish it is soooo hard for me! You will never guess who is coming over tomorrow&#8230; Yep the boyfriend, not sure how that is going to go. But I know we need to talk, face to face. I hope I can say what I need to say, I am not sure what that is yet mind you. So this may be a difficult task. This week is going to kick my butt, two projects for the same class due Wednesday, and a test in one of my hardest classes tuesday. I HATE Finance!! :( Also, today ModCloth had a damages sale in our warehouse, only employees invited! It was awesome, I wanted to buy more but then I would have no paycheck left! And sometimes you have to eat, as inconvenient that is to your new wardrobe! haha ;) I am ready for summer to start, and school to be over for good&#8230; Which isn&#8217;t this summer lol, but someday! haha :P How was your day?

Hey there beautiful people! I hope all is well with you!

HAPPY SATURDAY NIGHT! I am hungover a little and got a lot accomplished today. I GOT A PEDICURE! haha I am so ticklish it is soooo hard for me!

You will never guess who is coming over tomorrow… Yep the boyfriend, not sure how that is going to go. But I know we need to talk, face to face. I hope I can say what I need to say, I am not sure what that is yet mind you. So this may be a difficult task.

This week is going to kick my butt, two projects for the same class due Wednesday, and a test in one of my hardest classes tuesday. I HATE Finance!! :(

Also, today ModCloth had a damages sale in our warehouse, only employees invited! It was awesome, I wanted to buy more but then I would have no paycheck left! And sometimes you have to eat, as inconvenient that is to your new wardrobe! haha ;)

I am ready for summer to start, and school to be over for good… Which isn’t this summer lol, but someday! haha :P

How was your day?

5 notes #modcloth #boys #projects #life

Mar1

Representing my favorite band. INCUBUS. Today was a decently good day. My dad is working his way into the Catholic church and that is really exciting for him. :) I got to go to Outback steakhouse with them, good stuff. I worked there for about 3 years, about 3 years ago haha. Interesting place to work. ANYWAYS, Kevin came over to work on a project that we put off until basically he had to go home. Oh well. I NEED to start trying in school, my parents are starting to notice. haha. Pictures of items I got yesterday shopping will be up tomorrow. I &lt;3 you all. What band is your favorite? If you have no favorite, who are you particularly into right now??

Representing my favorite band. INCUBUS.

Today was a decently good day. My dad is working his way into the Catholic church and that is really exciting for him. :) I got to go to Outback steakhouse with them, good stuff. I worked there for about 3 years, about 3 years ago haha. Interesting place to work.

ANYWAYS, Kevin came over to work on a project that we put off until basically he had to go home.

Oh well. I NEED to start trying in school, my parents are starting to notice. haha.

Pictures of items I got yesterday shopping will be up tomorrow.

I <3 you all.

What band is your favorite? If you have no favorite, who are you particularly into right now??

23 notes #incubus #shopping #life #school

Feb13

Its been a crazy day&#8230; Lets just put it at that, I have done a lot of thinking about steps I need to take in my life to get somewhere. Now I am in a pouty, cuddly mood!! My moods change like a mood ring. I am so MOODY! haha, sorry. But today/this week has been boring but busy at the same time. I am sick of letting people walk all over me. Sick of losing control of everything. It is time to get back in to control of my life. ANYWAYS, It&#8217;s Friday night, I hope all of you are not going to see this til tomorrow morning! Because you all are busy bee&#8217;s having lives and such! &lt;3 I saw Avatar yesterday for the second time&#8230; Have you seen it?

Its been a crazy day… Lets just put it at that, I have done a lot of thinking about steps I need to take in my life to get somewhere.

Now I am in a pouty, cuddly mood!! My moods change like a mood ring. I am so MOODY! haha, sorry.

But today/this week has been boring but busy at the same time. I am sick of letting people walk all over me. Sick of losing control of everything. It is time to get back in to control of my life.

ANYWAYS, It’s Friday night, I hope all of you are not going to see this til tomorrow morning! Because you all are busy bee’s having lives and such! <3

I saw Avatar yesterday for the second time… Have you seen it?

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Dec8

Tired

It has been a long day in my life today.

Woke up late, missed my blood test.

Had to reschedule blood test with a nurse who must have not eaten her Wheaties this morning… It took me about 10 times of repeating myself for her to understand that I need the test every week so I can’t wait until next week. Blah blah

Went to the dark room, had a good time with some of my Irish friends. I cannot believe that I am leaving in 14 days! It is so bittersweet, I am going to miss them.

Came back to my room tried to look at Human Resource Management notes… Why am I studying business again? haha but really, NO inspiration.

Ate un-healthy food all day. Feeling kinda gross about myself, so I decided to hit up the gym tomorrow!

Over-drew my account yet again… WTF I swear, I have been here for 3 1/2 months and I still cannot get the exchange rate and fees figured out. It would help if the exchange rate wouldn’t change constantly.

My boyfriend is as sick as a dog and I can’t take care of him, oh and I miss him so damn much.

My dad told me I would break my mom’s heart if I dropped out of college. Because she has been working to help me pay for school. That hurts, just another dagger to the heart. I have talked to her about it too, she seems more supportive than him (about modeling). But they are so practical, If my heart wasn’t set so much on modeling I would see their side.

But I guess NYC in January will show us all. I hope you guys follow me, it would be nice knowing that you are there for me. Believe it or not I depend a great deal on you all. You are my friends.

I am so tired… I need sleep. I am sorry for the depressing post today. I think once I am back in the states again I will be more up-beat! Or maybe tomorrow will be a magical day! Oh wait, my first final is Thursday. So, much for tomorrow being a good day…

P.S. To all the ppl who wrote about things that they like about themselves from yesterday! Thank you so much for sharing, apparently a lot of you have beautiful eyes! I am a sucker for eyes, so that is awesome. One of you asked what my favorite thing about myself is…  I really like my collar bones, not sure why, I just find them attractive. :)

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Sep28

Hello Beauties!

I just thought I would let you know, you all are seeing the first uploaded photos from my weekend travels to Dublin! They aren’t on any of my social networking sites yet, so you should totally feel privileged. ;)

Anyways, Dublin made me jealous. Why didn’t I decide to study at Dublin rather than Limerick? My friend told me to do that, and I didn’t. I guess that is what happens when you go with three other people. Sometimes I wish I came alone. If I was alone I would have probably studied in Prague, Paris, Venice, or Barcelona. Oh well, the good part is- I am going to be visiting all of these places.

OK, I am so easily sidetracked! Dublin was grand, the nightlife was to die for. That picture of Temple Bar (the most popular pub in Dublin) was taken at night, horrible quality. Then that lovely pink substance I am drinking is Strawberry beer from Belgium!! I am Belgian!! And it was delicious. That statue is Molly Malone, not sure if that means anything to you. haha

AND that Guinness picture was taken at the Guinness factory.

Studying abroad is great so far, however meeting a bunch of backpackers at our hostel made me want to drop out of school again. WHY do I always find other things I want to do instead of school? Modeling. Traveling. Designing. Photography. The honest truth is that College is not really my kind of thing, I am just doing it to please the parents. Maybe someday it will be a good thing to have my degree in Marketing, however if I got a job somewhere in an office I would be miserable.

Which is why I was thinking about transferring to NYC for Fashion design (my lifelong dream), for sizes 8+!!

Curvy girls like couture too you know. ;)

I could use a good “life” quote, Have an inspiring one for me?

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Aug20