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Hello FFM. I am so excited about today's episode with my new friend Ella Helikas.

I have been following her for a while now, but this is actually our first time meeting in person,

and God did I love her just as much as I expected to. Her energy is truly unparalleled,

and it is absolutely infectious. For those of you who aren't familiar with Ella,

she is a model featured in Sports Illustrated Swim and many more publications and an influencer

sharing content focused on confidence, wellness, body positivity, and recreating iconic celebrity

looks to show that high-fashion outfits can be sexy on bigger bodies as well. Ella and I

discussed so much in this episode in terms of her modeling career and the label of curve model,

how she is the most confident she's ever been right now while simultaneously being her biggest

size, the not-to-night movement that she has recently started in discussion of body discrimination

in the nightlife scene, and so much more. I hope you all love this one as much as I do without

further ado, here is Ella.

Ella, thank you so much for coming. I'm really excited to chat with you.

I have been following you for a while now. I found you. I must have been through Carissa,

I think, but I'm like hitting up, I just told you, like your entire friend group during my L.A.

trip, because I love you guys. I'm like, I can be your New York little like sub-arms,

so when you guys come to the city, you can come hand with me. I'm super excited to talk to you

about a multitude of things. I was listening to a few interviews of yours, and in all of the

intros, I notice, and it's something that I notice, you even reference about yourself and

bios and stuff. I'm curious, the term curve model or plus size model. Is there any part of you

that's like, why can't we just say I'm a fucking model? Totally. He's part of me. Because you're

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