So I chose, ""What inspired you to become a SuicideGirl?" (in your case, a Hopeful!)"
Well for starters I have always felt out of the loop, ever since highschool. I didn't fit in with the jocks, the "cool kids" I never really looked the part as a "normal girl" so to speak. I was always interested in the body art and people that had piercings and interesting looking exteriors to match their wild personalities! I started doing some small modifications when I finally left for college in 2012. I started with a tattoo, then a piercing and slowly yet surely I added to the collection, then I started dying my hair fun and wild colors and I just felt so at peace with my looks regardless of what some people, including my family members had to say about it. I was finally happy in my own skin, creating art on my body for people to ask me about on a daily basis! I started dating this guy after returning home after a year of college and he was exactly like me... Tattoos, piercings and the same wild attitude that I had. He made me feel so beautiful and made me embrace my body and my art so much more! We decided to go to the Suicide Girls Burlesque here in Minnesota and I had never been to one or heard on one before but I started looking up these SG and what they were all about and reading his books at his house now and again and I fell so deeply in love with these wild and amazing ladies! All shapes, sizes, cultures and backgrounds, hair colors and body art. I never felt more at home then when I went into this show and saw these amazing people all around me, and as soon as those ladies took to the stage... I couldn't believe my eyes and the excitement that started building inside of me!!! They called some girls up to the stage to dance and I wanted to so bad but I was in the upper balcony and they didn't end up choosing me. I resorted to SG.com and looked up how and if I could become one of these ladies and get my ass up on that stage someday! I started thinking about all these themes and set ideas that I wanted to do. I joined and got accepted to submit my sets, the first year was uneventful because I was working 3 jobs trying to get back into school and pay for these photographers and outfits and such. I thought about giving up but then I finally met the photographer who I knew would help me create a great first set... and the rest is history. I am bummed to have to take a break because I will be having a baby at the end of this year but I can't wait to get back into the swing of things after that and hopefully finally make my dreams come true and become a SG and work hard to make myself known and get up on that stage and travel with theses amazing ladies at my side while meeting thousands more out there that had that same feeling of amazement that I once had at my first show.... I have never been more motivated and persistent about something before and I really hope that I can make this happen for myself and be able to say that.. dreams do come true.
