Hello to whoever's reading this. My name is Nelifer but prefer to be called Nelly. I am 23 years old, I am from Sao Paulo Brazil but have been living in TJ Mexico with my dad for the past year. I am a very silly, funny girl but very serious and dedicated for the things I love. I have always been very self conscious about my appearance, I always think that I can look better, that the way I am now is not good enough, it's never good enough. I have thought about doing surgery to fix my appearance but at the end of the day I feel like it might not be necessary. I am a curvy girl, and I hate that I can love my curvy role models but can't love myself. I want to love myself, I think everyone should love themselves, to me that is the point of life. I want to love myself and I want to help others love themselves too.

My passion is fashion and everything and anything that has to do with that. Ever since I was little i would watch Americas Next Top Model and dream to be in those girls shoes. I would study their faces and poses, and listen to what the judges would say and practice it in front of a mirror. I love it, I have always loved it but because of the way that I look I always thought that the modeling world is not an option for me. That is until I saw Ashley Graham strutting her stuff down a runway. I would see her walk down and think, hey shes got cellulite like me, and shes got a couple rolls on her belly like me, hey maybe I can be a model. After that I started to search and try to learn more about plus size models and what they are about and ever since I have brought back my love and passion for it. My dream is to become a model, but at the same time to become an example, for boys and girls, big or small, old or young. To be a voice that they can hear and say, hey, it's ok to be like this, it's ok to be different! I LOVE being different, I love standing out in the crowd because that is what makes us unique. I have always been this way my whole life and I want to show people that this is not a bad thing. Where they can look and say hey, it's ok. I love fashion, i love everything about modeling, and how to pose and how to walk, its literally the love of my life. But because of offensive comments and criticism like, saying that I will only look good if I lose weight and that I wont have work in the field unless I shut my mouth and give up on my passion for food. Those kind of things hurt. And I hate that someone would even say that to someone. I want to change that. I want to prove them wrong and show that curvy, chubby and thick is beautiful.

I would my a difference by helping people and letting them know that it's ok. It's ok to have dimples, it's ok to not have a perfect body, and it's ok if you don't look like the people you see on TV or magazines. It's ok. I say this because I wish I had more of this growing up. Someone telling me that it's ok to be different, and that different is good and different makes you unique and that not even those people look like that. I want to be a comforting voice to men and women everywhere, I want to help people up when they are feeling down and sad and disappointed. I want to be just like the role models I look up to, to feel better. I want to make people feel better. I want to help people be happy with themselves and love themselves.