A biography for Ashley Nell Tiptonhasn’t been written yet.
“I trust people until they give me a reason not to trust them.”
“I went to multiple doctors to make sure that I'm taking the right anti-depression medication and make sure that my blood pressure's okay. I found out that my blood pressure wasn't okay and that I had a fatty liver. All these health risks were coming up.”
“We should just all wear what we want.”
“I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.”
“I love to sew. But when it's something that's being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.”
“I wasn't your normal plus-size girl who would dress in all black and hide in the shadows. I was very out there. But I was very shy and insecure about certain things.”
“Social media is an influence but with my own twist!”
“You can't continue to reflect on the past.”
“I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.”
“Me showing my emotions... it's not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of passion.”
“I'm turning this industry around and making clothing that we've been wanting and needing.”
“I don't have a problem showing my legs!”
“Everybody says black makes you look slimmer, but what about those other colors that also complement your skin tone or your figure and things like that?”
“When companies are jumping on the bandwagon to do plus size, they limit themselves.”
“When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.”
“I'm trying to put plus-size on the map. We can be fashion-forward.”
“It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.”
“I do feel like plus-size fashion is changing, but it's slowly changing. It's not growing as fast as we would all like.”
“I want to offer plus-size women the opportunity to wear fun colors and to avoid the pitfalls of only wearing black because many curvy girls think it is the only color that is slimming.”
“Widening a garment or making it larger is not understanding the real curves of a plus size women.”