The One About Something Invisible With Chronic Illness Author & Model Gigi Robinson
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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
When being diagnosed with a chronic illness at age 11, that certainly shaped Gigi into who she is today and how she shows up not only for others with invisible illnesses, but to speak to KIDS about it too. She wrote a book for kids on chronic illness, is a photographer, model (ahem, sports illustrated swim model) and has been featured in Bustle, Business Insider, Forbes & Vogue Business. This is one Gen Z that’s looking to change the way we show up, and how we view invisible illness.
Follow @itsgigirobinson and find her book “A Kids Book About Chronic Illness” here.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.5 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm so excited to have our guest today. Gigi Robinson is somebody that I followed on social |
| 0:37.0 | media for a while. |
| 0:37.8 | She is like more than a decade. She's closer in age to my kids than she is to me. But that's okay. |
| 0:41.6 | She's just, I've learned so much from her. And I think it's important to remember we don't always have to like age up in order to learn something because that younger generation is really coming through with a lot. |
| 0:52.6 | Gigi was diagnosed with a chronic illness |
| 0:54.2 | at age 11 and she now is a model, a photographer. She was a sports illustrated swim model. |
| 1:02.6 | She also is an advocate in chronic illness and body confidence and has done a lot in small |
| 1:08.6 | business world. She's been featured in bustle, Business Insider Forbes |
| 1:12.2 | Vogue Business. She combines that beauty and those brains at the Gen Z forefront as a thought |
| 1:18.7 | leader in the content creation space. I'm really excited for you to listen to today's episode |
| 1:23.7 | because I think it was just a really cool one to talk to somebody who was diagnosed with |
| 1:28.2 | chronic illness at a young age and how she has sort of used that to propel her into so much more, |
| 1:34.0 | especially her conversations around being a shy kid into being a confident woman. |
| 1:39.4 | She also has a book out called A Kid's Book About Chronic Illness. |
| 1:42.6 | I encourage you to check that out and enjoy |
| 1:45.4 | today's episode. G.J. Robinson, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited. We podcasted on yours a little |
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