Me?? A MaXX Girl?!?

I'm used to being in the background. Laying low. You might catch me out at events, showing support, you might even hear me speak in real life instead of through a computer screen. But for the University of Minnesota's Black Student Union Talent Show, that all changed……..for about 10 minutes.

MaXXposure and our stunning MaXX Girls were doing the fashion show portion for the event. The ladies were modeling Small Talk Tees (www.smalltalkinc.com), who create t-shirt’s with short, bold statements or saying's.

We were short one girl and the shirt that was left just so happened to be the one that I inspired, itscrackingdotcom with Cali’s saying …..crickets…… in the background. So Cali tells me that I might have to be in the show and at first I was like nope, it ain’t happening. I thought about it and how I could really just fall flat on my face and be HIGHLY embarrassed, but figured I would be helping out the team and I love the team, so said I would do it.

I was incredibly nervous. I mean, you know, I been on a stage before but not to model anything, and I’ve never thought of myself as “model material”, now don’t get me wrong, I know I am beautiful inside and out (not cocky, I just know my worth), but on top of that I had to do a little diddy bop too?! For 30 seconds?! 30 seconds is a long time to be diddy bopping on someone’s stage now. So I got the shirt on, telling myself, “Girl, you can do this.”, then proceeded to think of what I was going to do once I got up on that stage. So I found a mirror and got to practicing my diddy bopping skills real quick.

So I’m standing with Nikki and with the rest of the girl’s backstage waiting. Izzy and Tammy are practicing their little dance routine and it was real cute, Tisha was chilling talking with her boyfriend who was also a part of the show. Faith was chilling too. And I’m thinking I have new found respect for these girls. I’m scared as ever right now and this is what they go through when they show up to our events. They have to put themselves out there, open up, and show personality. It may sound easy, but once you set foot backstage and really realize you are about to be looked at and dissected either in a positive or negative way, you get nervous. But you have to put that all out of your head get on the stage and do you. Which is what I TRIED to do. My face was hot so I know it was red, I was smiling so hard that I tried to stop but couldn’t for like the next 15 minutes after I got off the stage, Lord know what song I was dancing to, and how exactly was I dancing?? I don’t know if I really want to see the pictures.

After we were done we all got back up on stage and there was a raffle that was done. So I’m back up on the stage standing there, hot, smiling, but HOT. The owner of Small Talk Tees takes a picture of me and Faith, and I am sweating. I don’t know if you could see it, but I know I was.

And that was it! I did it. I was a MaXX Girl for 10 minutes. I went through so many emotions within a couple of minutes, but it really was so much fun………..that I might do it again ;).

In the meantime.....if you were inspired by my story and you would like to be a MaXX Girl go to www.maxxposuremarketinggroup.com and fill out an application!

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it! ;) BESOS!

Juany