Remix: Nicole Mejia Wants You to Love Yourself—All of You

Latina to Latina

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Latinas, Lantiguawilliams, 519788, Aliciamenendez, Society & Culture, Latinos, Entrepreneurship, News, Hispanics, Entertainment News, Business

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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She launched herself as an Instagram model. And then Nicole Mejia built an entire fitness brand, Fit and Thick, to empower women to embrace their natural shape and work to enhance it. Now, the fitness entrepreneur is rebranding her empire as LULY, and encouraging a different type of well-being: one that begins on the inside. Alicia gets her to go deep on acceptance as the starting point of transformation, resisting the urge to constantly change and evolve, and why self-love often means “making difficult decisions to honor your needs.” Follow Nicole @nicole_mejia on Twitter and IG. If you loved this episode, listen to Fran Medina and Melissa Alcantara for more wellness and influencing. Show your love and become a Latina to Latina Patreon supporter!

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0:00.0	Our top 25 countdown continues. Coming in at number 12, Nicole Mejia. When I first got to know Nicole, she was a fitness influencer in Miami.
0:09.3	And by the time we had this conversation, she was shifting to wellness. And from afar, I've watched her shift again, moving her life more and more offline.
0:17.9	Of all the conversations I've had, this is among my favorites because Nicole was so
0:22.1	thoughtful about giving grace to all former versions of ourselves and embracing that they brought us
0:28.3	to where we are right now.
0:33.0	You've built an empire in the blink of an eye. It's been six years, girl. It's not been a
0:38.3	being a blink of an eye. But thank you. Thank you. So you've just rebranded, but I think most of
0:44.3	us know you for the original brand, which was fit and thick. So let's start there. What does it
0:50.7	mean to be fit and thick? Yeah, so fit and thick originally started when I was at this crossroads in my own life.
0:59.7	I was getting a lot of feedback about my body when I was modeling on Instagram.
1:04.7	And people were like, your legs are too big.
1:08.0	You know, your boobs are too small.
1:09.8	You have too much cellulite on your butt. I kind of came to this place where I was like, okay, I can either accept my body or I can conform to what these people's standards of beauty are. Strangers on the internet? Oh, yeah, that's the way it goes. You know, you know the way that Instagram goes. If you put yourself out there, people think that you are asking for their commentary on the way you live your life or the thoughts and images that you project.
1:32.3	So I kind of came to this place.
1:34.4	So I was like, okay, I can either accept my body or I can conform.
1:36.9	And I chose to accept my body.
1:38.6	And I did it in a post on Instagram.
1:41.7	And it was just about me saying, I'm fit. I can sprint fast. I can lift heavy.
1:47.7	My cardiovascular is in shape, but I'm also thick, and not because I work out to be, but because
1:54.3	that's my natural body, and they're not mutually exclusive. Someone can have a cellulate and also
1:59.9	be strong. So it's about embracing your
2:03.3	natural shape. It's about feeling confident in who you are, accepting where you are so that you
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