264: Coming of Age in the Modeling Industry, Confronting Ageism, Body Image & Motherhood with Emily DiDonato

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Emily Didonato is a model, content creator and co-founder of the skincare brand, Covey. She joins the show in a candid conversation to discuss what it was like being discovered in a mall to being the face of Maybelline, her honest experience in the industry, imposter syndrome, ageism, and how the industry is evolving. She shares how she transitioned to content creation to be in control of her career and longevity, being an entrepreneur, and how she manages her time being a business owner and mom of two. Finally, Emily talks about the challenges of pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood, how it affects self esteem, and where she is currently with body image and self love.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:02.8	Welcome to the Blond Files podcast.
0:07.7	I'm your host Arielle Lori and I'm here to talk all things
0:11.1	wellness from how to achieve optimal health and well being to the best
0:15.5	beauty tips and everything in between no topic is off limits. I know there's so much
0:20.2	information out there so I am bringing on expert guests and sharing my own
0:24.3	experiences to help you sift through all the wellness stuff without the BS.
0:28.0	Enjoy the show.
0:30.0	Hi everybody welcome to the show I love today's episode so much I actually just
0:38.5	listened back to it to do notes for this episode and I actually loved it even more in listening back than I did recording it.
0:47.6	So I'm talking to Emily De Donato. She has been on the show before if you've been listening for a while you might remember we did an episode back in I believe April
0:57.8	2021 we actually figured it out and we were talking because I had just gotten fat transfer in my face the week before and I look at
1:06.4	pictures and videos from that episode and I'm like whoa I was incredibly
1:11.1	swollen but anyway I'm digressing but we did get into a lot of her
1:14.8	background and it was a really interesting episode so if you want you can go back and
1:19.2	listen to that one but we did get into some of her background in today's episode two and if you're
1:26.4	familiar with Emily then you may know that she has been a very successful model and then she's pivoted to content creation.
1:36.3	She's also the co-founder of the skincare brand Kovey and she's a mom and we
1:42.1	get into all of that in today's episode. So we do talk about her
1:46.9	background. I thought it was fascinating to hear her story of being discovered in a
1:50.7	mall and then almost instantly shooting for Ralph Lauren and kind of
1:56.4	being launched into this career I'm so curious about what that experience is like
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