Plus Size Model Paloma Elsesser Is An Inspiration To Everyone
In a world where fat shaming is a socially accepted practice and we like our models to be ultra thin, trying to make it as a plus size model is no simple feat. Now imagine you’d also be a black woman, which is basically the discrimination trifecta. Paloma Elsesser fought those odds in one of the more superficial lines of work on the planet, and won.
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Paloma was born in London and raised in Los Angeles. She lived in a predominantly black neighbourhoor, feeling a lot like outsiders in the very hip and rich city of LA. Once she started college, she moved to New York. She gained a degree in psychology and literature and actually never considered becoming a model.
One day some friends told her she had a unique look, so she decided to go to different modelling agencies. Since she was unschooled in all things fashion, none of them felt the need to give her a fair shot and they all rejected her.
After sort of giving up on her dream of becoming a model, she got an email from a black makeup artist that was looking for unique faces. The artist, Pat McGrath, felt like Paloma had something cinematic to her face and absolutely wanted to work with her. And ever since that first modeling gig in 2015, her career has only skyrocketed upwards.
Paloma has been on the cover of pretty much every Vogue variant, has been a part of Victoria’s Secret 2021 swimsuit campaign and has garnered more and more respect as one of the faces of the newly found inclusivity of the fashion industry.
35 Years After Chernobyl – What the City of Pripyat Looks Like Today
On February 4, 1970, the Soviet Union founded a new settlement for atomic scientists,
workers, and their families commonly referred to as an atomograd. This town would, in time, become a successful model of a Soviet metropolis. It was a river-side utopia with a sandy bank that locals called “The Beach,” complete with various shops, entertainment, schools, hospitals, and residences.
Residents referred to their city as “The City of Roses,” named for the thirty-three thousand rose bushes planted throughout.
Seven years later, three kilometers away, construction began on the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant.
Or, more famously known as, Chernobyl.
Early in the morning on April 26, 1986, reactor number four at Chernobyl exploded, starting a fire that
would burn for nearly two weeks, all the while spewing radioactive material into the air. But what happened
to the idyllic city of Pripyat, home to
almost fifty-thousand people?
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Surprising Films That Were Once Banned
They’re classics — the kind of movies that are required watching for cinephiles and students alike. But many of these films were once banned upon their initial release. And the reason behind their release? Well, that’s what makes this story so interesting.
From politics to prudishness and censorship, see our list of films that were once banned but that people consider incredible works today
1. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The 1925 film was banned in the UK upon its release until 1929 because it was deemed too terrifying for general distribution.
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