This week on Disabled and Proud Brooke Millhouse is joined by Sophie Bradbury-Cox, aka FashionBelle, who has been a wheelchair user since she was a teenager.
She started out studying art and wanted to pursue fashion but she was discouraged by not being accepted on a college course due to her disability.
Sophie is known for her colourful, trendy style and body positivity. She started her instagram page a few years ago and she now has more than 21,000 followers. She is on a mission to show that disabled people can be fashionable.
Instagram @fashionbellee
In this episode you will hear:
Why Sophie decided to start her Instagram page
The problems Sophie faced as a wheelchair user when she became a mother
What Sophie is doing to normalise disabled needs in the fashion world
How Sophie has adapted her life around her disability
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About This Show:
Disabled and Proud is the show that brings listeners a different perspective on disability. Each week this podcast highlights an awesome disabled guest speaking about their own disability; why they are proud to be disabled and why they are proud to be themselves.
The conversations in this show will look at what challenges these amazing people face socially, mentally, physically and life in general. This show is raw, open, honest, funny, welcoming and educational.
Disabled & Proud does exactly what is says on the tin! And whilst we are creating this space for disabled people to be unashamedly themselves, without need to conform for society, this is also not about toxic positivity. This show will be shining a big, bright light on disability without it being “Paralympic or pity”.
As you will hear disability is WHOLE, COMPLETE & PERFECT and whilst the topic of disability can be quite heavy - and we definitely don't shy away from the bad days - this podcast is also about having fun too! Our aim is to play a part in reclaiming the word disability - turning it from inadequacy to perfection!
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