Velvet D’Amour is a 38 year old American model who has achieved fame and glory in the difficult world of fashion based fat and gain kilos and curves.

Believe it or not, Velvet D’Amour said he had no future as a model when she was 21 years old and weighed 59 kilos. Now, with 46 years and 136 kilos has turned that initial failure and triumphs in Europe as fashion editor advising women like her to enjoy their bodies and escape the false image that the idealized models off magazine.

their first steps in the world of fashion developed in New York, his hometown. He attended Manhattan in Visual Arts Escuala and soon a modeling agency, IMG, was interested in it. It is the same famous representing the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum and Alek Wek.

Unlike them, the struggle against the scale Velvet  D’Amour had always kilos defeat and began to build up in your body, why at 21 years and 56 kilos in weight, he was told he was “too fat “.

Frustrated, changed the course of his life and turned to photography. To do this he moved to Italy where he put under the command of famous American photographer James White.

It was in this way became known inside the fashion world and realize that the models were extremely unhappy, something she did not know.

That was his great revelation, “models photographed while I did not feel good about my body and at the same time I thought that they were not satisfied with themselves.”

So, when it opened in Paris, Agence Plus, the first modeling agency for plus-size women, D’Amour did not hesitate a moment and offered their professional services.

In Agence Plus, work and the same D’Amour, loved. Even he was asked to illustrate their work with their perch.

His perseverance led him to be the icon in the parade of Jean-Paul Gaultier in which he presented his collection of special sizes during the fashion week in Paris in 2006.

It was also carried in the French edition of Vogue with its parade with another major, John Galliano, which immortalized photographer Nick Knight.

Although Velvet D’Amour has been charged with “promoting obesity”, she defends herself by saying that only intention is to convince women of the need to accept people as they are. To be proud of their bodies.

For this difficult task, is embarking on the publication of the quarterly ‘Vol Up 2’ just introduced its fourth edition.

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