2o23 Special Guests

Title: Christian & Plus-Size Fashion Influencer 

Bio: Sonja is a Christian, Plus Size Fashion Influencer who inspires women to find & embrace their style without shame! Her content helps women develop God-centered confidence through faith & fashion. Her own struggles with body image, failed relationships, and generational cycles led her into a loving relationship with God, that she transparently lives out online. Sonja uses her testimonies of growing in faith, embracing authenticity, and discovering her style, to connect with plus size women seeking to grow in spiritual confidence and identify their unique fashion sense!  

Paris Phifer better known as Plus Model Paris is a Full Figured Model and Brand Ambassador from the DMV Area. She has a passion for modeling and loves being in front of a camera. Paris has been doing a variety of modeling such as print, showroom, and runway for 10 years. Her experience includes show room modeling, runway and as well as being featured on several websites.She recently was selected as the Cover Model for Crusade of Curves which is Curvy Community Fashion week that takes place every year in different cities. Paris enjoys her craft and continues to thrive and be an inspiration and advocate for women to love themselves and be confident within their bodies despite society's standards of what a full figured women is

Ivette Garcia (Curves with Coffee) is a plus size Latina content creator  from Philly who enjoys influencing the plus community to be comfortable in their skin through her sense of fashion.  Self-Confidence is where it all starts no matter the size, shape or gender.  She expresses her confidence through fashion and lifestyle content. She is your favorite Gordita and personal hype-woman. 

Janiece Bryant is a plus size model, influencer, brand ambassador and full time employee for ELOQUII! Janiece has served as a model, model coordinator, and production team member for Crusade of Curves for 5 years! While she loves the runway and being a model, she has recently developed a passion for being behind the scenes, helping to develop new models and serving as creative/posing director for local brands and photographers. Being an inspiration to women will always be Janiece's why. She wants women to feel confident and empowered in their bodies. 

Tazah Richardson has been a fixture on the DMV plus size fashion scene since 2006. Her career as a Plus-Size Model, Modeling Coach, Make-Up Artist, and now the current reigning Ms. Full-Figured D.M.V. 2022 has permitted her opportunities from print to runway to television appearances both nationwide and abroad internationally, all as a freelance model. She attributes much of my success to keeping a positive attitude while navigating the, sometimes not so glamorous, plus modeling industry. 

Teaching and coaching aspiring models and dancers is her passion. Growing up she had very positive role models in my life that contributed to her current success. Volunteering as a dance coach at Cardozo Sr. High was her way of contributing to the world she would like to see. She 

mentored young ladies to be positive influences in their communities in hopes to ensure they encourage others to come along after them. She taught them to pass on the blessings so they will forever be blessed. So it only made sense that she built her pageant platform around providing safe spaces for young artists to create and learn their crafts in the Washington D.C. area called F.A.D., which is an abbreviation for Future Artist of D.C. 

Striving to achieve her goals so that she can create new goals is how she lives her life. Speak things into existence and share your knowledge with the next in line and you will be fruitful in all that you do.

Necol F. Scott was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland. Mother of 8 and grandmother of 5. Currently a senior at the illustrious Morgan State University, where she is seeking her Bachelors of Arts in Theater Arts with a minor in English. She is set to graduate Fall of 2023 and will graduate Summa Cum Laude. Necol is also currently waiting to leave to study abroad in the Winter of 2020 

Necol started a nonprofit organization in November 2020 and its name is Working Wonders Worldwide. Working Wonders Worldwide was created to have safe spaces for survivors of sexual assault and to fight for stricter laws against offenders. Being a survivor who wrote a book about it (available on amazon “Not Built to Break, I am Free”) she saw what was needed that was not given to her. 

All while attending school Necol enjoys spending time with her family, writing (plays, books, and short films), and acting in plays (last play “Magic City Massacre”). Necol is also building a platform for motivational and inspirational speaking inspiring people to live in their best authentic selves. Necol enjoys traveling, music, trying new food, and modeling. This is Necol’s 4th pageant and 3rd time with the ms. Full Figured DMV division. THE 3RD TIME'S THE CHARM. Necol also enjoys working in the community to help create safer environments. She also plans to be in the history books for all of

Kellye Beathea is a proud [DM]V native: born in Baltimore, and raised in Washington, DC. She earned her Juris Doctorate from University of Baltimore School of Law, and her bachelor’s degree in communications from Bowie State University.  Having a passion for both communications and law, her work philosophy is that journalism is lawyering with a pen. Upon graduating law school, Kellye decided to focus her career in journalism and communications strategy. She takes pride in translating the “complicated” into layman’s terms for the public, and her work reflects her proficiency in these respective fields. Outside of work and academia, Kellye enjoys modeling, museum-hopping, and all kinds of music. She prides herself in being a full-bodied sommelier of life and sensibility, a die-hard lover of law, politics & culture, a ravenous connoisseur of common sense, and a bastion of #BlackGirlMagic.