SKORCH Feb | Mar 2017 - Body Love Issue | Page 12

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 .

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