From the age of about 10 to about the age of 33, I thought I temporarily looked like this.

And any day now, it would change.

From Seamwork Magazine, I'm Sarah Mitnick and this is Seamwork Radio,

where we tell stories about designing, making, and wearing

our own clothing. Jenny Rushmore is the writer behind Kashmirat, a blog she writes from the

perspective of a plus-sized seower. She's also a founder of the online community, the curvy sewing

collective. Jenny's the kind of woman you'd love to meet at a party.

She's warm, approachable, talkative. She's also incredibly well-traveled.

Jenny's lived in nine different countries, including her current home in the U.S.

She radiates self-confidence, and she's just fun to be around.

But she didn't always have confidence. In fact, things were pretty bad growing up. She radiates self-confidence, and she's just fun to be around.

But she didn't always have confidence.

In fact, things were pretty bad growing up.

Jenny's British, but mostly grew up in Scotland.

As a kid, she was ostracized and bullied, and that led to some pretty distorted feelings

about who she was and what she looked like.

But her first memory of being singled out for

her size didn't come from other kids. It was from adults. I remember at the age of five being told

that my tummy stuck out too much to be in a ballet class. Which when you think about it now is obscene,

right? Like that shouldn't be allowed. Like it was the shape of my body. Like, it wasn't fat. And even if I was a fat five-year-old,

you can still do ballet at five. And I think that was, you know, I wonder if that did like

spark something a little bit. Jenny faced relentless bullying from other kids, starting around

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