Nina Parker isn’t any stranger to laborious work and perseverance! The famend tv persona and entrepreneur has been making waves within the leisure business for years. Lately, she added style mogul to her spectacular resume.
In a brand new episode of TSR’s By no means Cease, Parker candidly explains her journey of constructing her personal clothes line, particularly tailor-made for plus-size ladies, and the way it has contributed to her profession progress.
Catch the complete episode under.
Nina Parker Explains How She Began Her Profession In Media
Parker started her profession in leisure in 2007 when she relocated to Los Angeles.
Her path to success was something however a easy experience. On By no means Cease, she recalled dwelling in her automotive and solely having a number of hundred {dollars} to her title following her transfer.
However her persistence and dedication ultimately led her to get employed at TMZ. Whereas there, she helped break among the greatest tales, together with Bernie Mac’s demise in 2008 and Michael Jackson’s passing in 2009.
“I believe we slept within the newsroom for 3 days,” she stated concerning the aftermath of Jackson’s demise. “So, being a part of that was only a completely different – it simply form of activated a special form of hustle that I had by no means been part of, and it modified the best way that I labored.”
She credit TMZ’s “boot camp”-like expertise for getting ready her to slay as an leisure correspondent.
Parker’s new job put her in entrance of the digital camera, a pure shift for her. For every occasion, she would collaborate with a crew of hair stylists, make-up artists, and wardrobe stylists.
Nevertheless, the brand new place introduced its challenges. She recalled how laborious she had struggled to seek out garments that match her physique.
“You understand how there are lots of people who complain, like, after they don’t know easy methods to do black hair on set, individuals additionally don’t know easy methods to model a plus-size lady,” she stated. “I might get these racks, and it will simply be garments that, you recognize, my grandma would put on.”
Nina Determined To Launch Her Clothes Line
Reducing weight was out of the query, the TV persona stated. She admitted she had by no means checked out her physique and thought she wanted to alter herself to achieve success.
Nina Parker determined to make the desperately wanted change within the business herself. Nina quickly realized that many plus-size ladies couldn’t even discover “fundamental gadgets” for his or her our bodies. It shouldn’t be laborious to seek out unusual garments to put on, she said, however the decisions have been all the time restricted for these with a fuller determine.
Realizing the broad hole within the style business, Parker jumped on the alternative to launch her personal line, tailor-made for plus-size ladies.
Nevertheless, the journey was not a simple experience. Her endurance was repeatedly examined, particularly coming from an business the place she all the time needed to preserve a quick tempo. A few of these challenges included securing funding and discovering the precise producer.
Nonetheless, Nina Parker efficiently launched her clothes line, and it rapidly gained recognition. This enterprise enhanced her resume and considerably contributed to the expansion of her multi-lane profession.
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