about me

As a disabled woman living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (no, it has nothing to do with teeth, I promise) and scoliosis, I’ve always struggled with my relationship with my body and what it means to be disabled.

Maybe it’s because I grew up in the late 90s/early 2000s when every magazine cover, movie, and reality TV show literally told girls to hate their bodies.

Or maybe it’s because the world is an ableist hellscape. Probably both.

What I do know, is that I spent most of my life feeling insecure, ashamed, and like I was the problem.

One day, I was scrolling through social media looking for style tips for dressing with scoliosis. I just wanted to find advice on what to wear that made me feel good about my body. But every piece of advice was about how to hide my scoliosis.

So that sucked.

And right there I decided that if society wasn’t going to give a s*** about disabled bodies, I’d do it myself.

Now, I use my platform to promote body confidence, self-acceptance, and what it’s actually like to exist as a disabled woman.

I’m also a patient ambassador for the CMT Research Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for CMT.

I currently live in Vancouver, BC with my husband and our dog, Chewie.