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Weekend Check-In: The Lives I’ve Lived The life I’m living now? Ten years ago, I couldn’t have pictured it if you handed me a storyboard and a budget. If you told 16-year-old me what I was about to survive over the next decade, I’d laugh not because it’s funny, but because anxiety has always loved a costume change. I’d probably ask one question: Do we make it out the other side?  And the answer is yes but not in a tidy, inspirational-montage way. More like: clawing, crawling,

Hello, hello, hello—welcome to this week’s maxi challenge, aka me holding myself accountable and actually making a post. Recently, I had the opportunity of a lifetime—one I’ve been dreaming of since I was ten years old. I walked in New York Fashion Week. Yes. Me.  On an NYFW runway. If you had asked me even a year ago if this was in my cards, I would have said, “Oh, absolutely not.”  I never took the conventional steps—no modeling agency, no perfectly curated portfolio, no in