“I’m always telling people I am never in competition with anyone else. I’m always trying to be the best ME because nobody can do me—I am me. You know what I mean? It’s just like, I can’t do you, YOU are the best at doing you.” —Deborah Frew
resident of Grand Rapids, MI, Deborah is a mother, nail technician, make-up artist, tattoo artist and has been exploring the realm of plus-size modeling and other avenues that incorporate art. Most of all, Deborah is being Deborah! “I love expressing myself. I’m not a person who judges anyone, but this is who I am and how I look. I love me and am doing my thing! Being 38 years old and looking like I look like the artist that I am, I’m just coming hard with everything that I do so that you see it, not just on my face, but in my work itself.” Going hard with everything that she does has been the foundation of Deborah’s survival. We
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all make choices in life to either wallow in our misfortunes or move forward with the determination to succeed. The latter has been her choice and motivation. “As long as you are doing it to benefit you, and it does not affect your body negatively, it has nothing to do with anyone else. I always try to spread positive and uplifting encouragement to the next woman, because I grew up with nothing. My mother wasn’t rich. She wasn’t financially stable. We grew up on welfare and we grew up in the hood, you know what I mean? I guess I just know from my circumstance and my past, that was not who I wanted to be or to pass that life on to my children, so I poured all of that
