rce of Nature Interview with Stormy Wellington
Candice Bar: I love interviewing female powerhouses for the magazine, and clearly you’re a powerhouse. We are all about female empowerment, women doing big things in the world, and you’re one of them. Stormy Wellington: I am so excited to be here, thank you for having me. It’s exciting to keep things fun! CB: You’ve got to play hard; you’ve got to work hard. Clearly, you are a woman doing things and we love supporting female entrepreneurship, You have a great story, and I’d love for you to share with our readers where you came from. SW: Well, my journey started when my mom was pregnant. My mom was on the way to have an abortion with me at 5 months pregnant. She was going to deliver me and I would be deceased. On that day my mom went to have an abortion, my dad stepped in and they had this big argument. My mom was told that she needed to be at the doctor at 12 noon on that Wednesday. If she did not get to the doctor for that very appointment, the doctor was not going to be able to perform the procedure. My mom was a big-time drug dealer, my dad was cheating on her; she just wasn’t happy with the relationship. It made her determined not to have me. Even before I was born, I came into a situation that I kind of felt like I had to fight; I wasn’t wanted. Faith stepped in, in the form of my dad. She ends up not being able to have that abortion, so she ends up giving birth to me. My mom did not name me for three days. For three days I had no name.
On the third day the nurse walks in and says, “I’m sorry miss, but you have to name this child.” My mom kissed her teeth and said, “Name her Stormy.” A lot of people don’t know that’s my real name, and where it came from. If you were to ask, my mom would tell you she had so much trauma and problems with my dad, that the best way to describe their love affair was stormy. My name was pain for my mom. I did have a lot of childhood trauma growing up. I had the best of both worlds - I call it “Rich dad, hustler mom”. What I mean when I say that - my mom was a hustler. Everything she did revolved around drugs; traffic drugs, cook drugs, use drugs - that’s the type of life that I came up seeing. I saw what a kilo of cocaine looked like at 8 years old. I knew when my mom was getting ready to go out of town. I saw all her drug dealer friends, the life they lived, and her hot girlfriends. I would hear them talking about the things they did. I heard and saw those type of things early on. Then there were some summer breaks I would go visit my dad: rich dad. What do I mean by rich? Respect, Integrity, (Take) Care, Honor - that’s what I call R.I.C.H. My dad had this beautiful wife, and together they had a family. That’s how I was able to experience eating dinner at the dinner table with a family; dad getting up having to go to work, watching dad shovel the snow out the window. I saw both worlds and I decided at a really young age that I didn’t want either of the two. I made up my mind at a young age that I did not want to be like either of my parents. I grew up around a lot of fast things. I’ve been around drug dealers. I was a stripper at 13 years old. LUXE LIFE MAGAZINE 5
