How did you first become a Model?
I was planning to commemorate my 30th birthday with a photo shoot. I was always shy in front of the camera and I wanted to break that. I planned my first shoot and loved the process so I began to take on new projects. I learned soon after I began that there were very few women in my community who were representing the plus size industry, but there were a lot of women my size. This motivated me to be that person. I began with fashion doing runway, magazine editorials, catalog work, and fashion fit modeling. modeled in my local community college and art league. After every project I would learn something new about myself. and it allowed me to embrace my vulnerability, helping in my growth. The birth of a plus size model from a small town along the border was being born with each flash from the camera and I didn’t even know it. I was just wanting a memory to commemorate my thirty years of life. I was shy, insecure, scared, and I wanted to break that, I was tired of feeling this way.
I was planning to commemorate my 30th birthday with a photo shoot. I was always shy in front of the camera and I wanted to break that. I planned my first shoot and loved the process so I began to take on new projects. I learned soon after I began that there were very few women in my community who were representing the plus size industry, but there were a lot of women my size. This motivated me to be that person. I began with fashion doing runway, magazine editorials, catalog work, and fashion fit modeling. modeled in my local community college and art league. After every project I would learn something new about myself. and it allowed me to embrace my vulnerability, helping in my growth. The birth of a plus size model from a small town along the border was being born with each flash from the camera and I didn’t even know it. I was just wanting a memory to commemorate my thirty years of life. I was shy, insecure, scared, and I wanted to break that, I was tired of feeling this way.
Could you describe your activities as Model-Cultural Activist?
One day I am modeling for local
college students, the next I am meeting a fashion designer for a fitting, the
next day I could do work with my title as Miss Plus World Humanitarian
Ambassador. I love meeting those who are doing the work as great humanitarians
and letting the rest of the world know they exist. I get to live a day with
them watching how they help shape humanity for the good. It definitely is life
changing. I am grateful for the opportunities and the people I’ve been blessed
to connect through art, fashion and community.
I plan on fulfilling my reign as
Miss Plus World Humanitarian Ambassador for 2020 doing all that I can to
discover what it is to serve humanity and share it with my followers. There are
so many ways I am learning we could serve as I keep my eyes open to the
possibilities. Caring for a little animal that shows up at your doorstep,
spending a special holiday with someone who needs your company, visiting a tent
city where many work hard to do good and nurture each other with whatever they
can. I want to keep modeling fashion. I am currently working closely with an
amazing fashion designer Above and Beyond Dyson who I wear and represent at
most of my special social appearances. I will also continue to art model for my
local community college to give students a chance to see that all bodies big or
small and worthy of creating art from. I will do these things that help embrace
me and hopefully inspire other women. I will also continue to do as much as I
can to be a good mother to our daughter Bella. Show her new ways to be
expressive and help her break from anything holding her back. I see her finding
so many joys in school activities and activities outside of school and I see
how confident she is and it makes me so proud to be her mother. My husband is
also working hard to build his wonderful press called FlowerSong Books. He is
publishing many voices worth sharing with the world and I plan on being there
however I can to support that this dream grows as far as it could possibly
reach. I will wake up every day and think up new ways to fill my time. Only
tomorrow can tell what new life adventures will come.
Find what you love and give it your
all. It’s not going to kill you if it is meant to build you. Everything has its
growing pains. Don’t let the growing pains scare you from achieving your
vision. Wake up every day and see how you could inspire others with your own
journey, not shoot them down. We all have a different journey and the
differences could be the things we learn from each other.
I leave you with two quotes that
define my activism and self-love journey
“Here is what we seek: a compassion
that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in
judgment at how they carry it.”
-Father Greg Boyle
“We delight in the beauty of the
butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that
beauty.”
-Maya Angelou
Liliana Ramirez
Vidaurre
was born and raised in the Resaca City of San Benito. She began her modeling
career nearly one decade ago. During that time she has been featured in
magazine spreads, fashion shows and on runways. She has worked with a
number of well respected names in the fashion community, including Bec's
Fashions, World Plus, Rent a Dress, Isabella & Jacque and Aboveandbeyond
Designs. Her work has also included art modeling for local colleges and
art leagues.She has worked tirelessly in these places to shine a positive light
on body image and to help women in her community as a positive and inspiring
voice. In addition to modeling she volunteers doing community service to help
her community any chance she can. She is the wife of McAllen poet laureate
Edward Vidaurre, whom she married in 2001, and mother of twelve year old
daughter, Bella. She is the current Miss Rio Grande Plus World for 2019 and
also Miss Plus World Humanitarian Ambassador for 2019-2020.
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Lili is a shining light and powerful voice in our RGV and Latinx community!
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