ONE ON ONE
Skorch
ONE ON ONE
Vol. 13 Issue 12 fev 2017 | SKORCHMAG. COM | 12
Here is my one on one with
Camina:
WERE YOU BULLIED AS A CHILD DUE TO YOUR WEIGHT AND BEAUTY? IF SO, WHAT IS THE WORST THING PEOPLE TOLD YOU?
I was very tall, thin and funny looking most of my childhood; when I hit 12 or 13, I started to become larger and cuter. However I was indeed bullied for my weight in high school – one particular troll got everyone at Camp to call me“ piglet” for years. I was a size 11, by the way. I was never bullied for my beauty as that came along later in life, but I sure got called ugly plenty of times as an adolescent. And yes, like a good Sicilian I remember every single slight! Clearly those people did not like themselves, but it’ s hard to see that when you’ re 15 and crying because someone called you Piglet.
BACK IN THE DAY, DID YOU EVER IMAGINE YOU COULD BE A PLUS SIZE MODEL?
I did start to dream of being a model in my late teens and early 20s. In fact, I was scouted by an older plus model in Cleveland and even did some training at a Barbizon school. But some big health problems and hair loss made my hang up my modeling dreams for over a decade. It was only when I moved to London for my opera singing career that I found a good hair replacement system, and started to model at a professional level.
Skorch