My name is Daniella, and I live in a small town outside of Toronto Ontario Canada. I’m currently 17 and working towards finishing high school so I can move onto college and my life passions after that. When I was younger, I was in a very small elementary school and was actually held back a year in kindergarten because I had originally come from a French school. So I was always a year older then the kids around me. This, combined with my larger body size is what sparked a lot of bullying for me as a child. I was tormented and grouped by boys in my class and it was hard to have friends because I was physically bullied and verbally taunted and people were afraid to be around me because of it. There had been incidences of group attacks where things were thrown at me, I’d get circled by boys and they’d call me names and harass me- at one point I was dragged across a school yard with a jump rope one student had tied around my legs. This went on for years until about the fifth grade where a male student grabbed me behind a protible and tried to strangle me with his hands. I managed to bite his arm to get him off me and after this the police were called and my parents thought it would be best to move me to another school. I then continued my education in a larger elementary school where things were better, but there was still incidents of bullying. But I still graduated elementary and moved onto high school. This was an even more terrifying experience for me as it was an even larger school and due to past traumas I was diagnosed in late ninth grade of social and general anxiety, depression and ptsd. As well as developing a fear of men. After this my mental health took a dive for the worse and I spent 6 months out of school environments before entering a hospital program which in reality has done nothing to help me handle my mental health- but it has given me ways to cope and recognize when something is wrong. Since then I have begun going to an alternative high school and have discovered which path I wish to follow in my career. Now I’m just trying to get all my classes and credits ready to follow that path.

I hope once I graduate high school to take a veterinary corse and get majors in animal nutrition and physical therapy as well as minors in writing, small business and agriculture so that I can follow my dreams of aiding animals, writing, and owning my own hobby farm and business as a specialist and for my knitting and crocheting. I have many passions that I enjoy doing and I hope to turn them all into a career some day. I have a strong passion for animals and have had them all my life. As well as being an equestrian for the past six years. I’m also a writer online and a digital artist along with a passion for looming and crochet. I’m also apart of the LGBTQ+ Community and I identify as Pansexual, this has allowed me to come more out of my shell a s discover who id wish to love in the future.

I believe I could make a difference as a fashion hero because I believe that who I am as a person I could connect with others and really help them along their paths as well. I feel like there is so much to connect with other people over. I’m a plus sized young girl coming out of a smaller Canadian town I’ve delt with a lot of hard ship in my life and even more I think I could share with those around me in a platform that would best suit myself and others- and I feel like fashion hero is that place. I want to start conversations and movements in the world and I want to make a change in how our community sees each other and ourselves- I want to help little girls see that no matter how bad things get- or how horrible those people treat you at school or how strongly your mind makes you believe what they say- you are beautiful and your talented and so many people love you and I’d love to get to know everyone I can and help them. This is who I am as a person and I want to project this into the world. I want us all to be able to fall in love with ourselves and each other and our world again.