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Irène was named after her grandmother, but their name (and their insistence on the accent grave) is really all they have in common, since her grandmother is a flat-chested, devoutly Catholic woman while her granddaughter cares more about (the right kind of) curves and cocktails than about observing Lent.
Her parents have never tried to force neither religion nor body image on her, in fact Irène has always been allowed to do exactly as she wants. She's very spoiled, the youngest child out of three, both her brothers of a quieter disposition than she is. The most she's managed to settle into a normal life is her vintage clothes shop that she runs with an efficiency you might not have expected of a bôheme girl like her, but besides being a free spirit, she's also very professional, she'll have you know.
When she isn't playing the businesswoman, you can find her at Rosebud, her favourite hang-out smack in the middle of the city. There she has a hoard of friends, most of them former or future lovers, too and she has fun blurring the lines utterly and completely, doesn't bind herself to anyone. The confidence she moves with isn't a given, once she was the bullied, fat girl who hated herself, whose constant chase after weight loss made her sick with depression, but the discovery of the body positivity movement during her two month stay at a mental health clinic has built her up from scrap and she takes it very seriously.
Because although Irène has made loving her body her number one priority as well as her livelihood, the struggle is still real.
Her parents have never tried to force neither religion nor body image on her, in fact Irène has always been allowed to do exactly as she wants. She's very spoiled, the youngest child out of three, both her brothers of a quieter disposition than she is. The most she's managed to settle into a normal life is her vintage clothes shop that she runs with an efficiency you might not have expected of a bôheme girl like her, but besides being a free spirit, she's also very professional, she'll have you know.
When she isn't playing the businesswoman, you can find her at Rosebud, her favourite hang-out smack in the middle of the city. There she has a hoard of friends, most of them former or future lovers, too and she has fun blurring the lines utterly and completely, doesn't bind herself to anyone. The confidence she moves with isn't a given, once she was the bullied, fat girl who hated herself, whose constant chase after weight loss made her sick with depression, but the discovery of the body positivity movement during her two month stay at a mental health clinic has built her up from scrap and she takes it very seriously.
Because although Irène has made loving her body her number one priority as well as her livelihood, the struggle is still real.
Je n'ai pas d'excuse.