Wannabe Princess

Plus Size Fashion and Lifestyle in South Yorkshire

plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire.

Debz Louise is a plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire. Behind many nationwide campaigns such as #WeaAreTheThey & winner of Best Blogger at the UK Plus Size Awards, she talkas about life as a plus-size 40-something woman in South Yorkshire.

A Sequin Surprise – The Fat Mermaid!

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A Sequin Surprise – The Fat Mermaid – You probably know by now, when it comes to clothes – I love colour, I love shape and I love sparkles. When I first saw this dress on the Fashion World website, I loved it. It is everything perfect about a dress for the Christmas season – I was well and truly smitten!

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Dear Angela Epstein – An Open Letter

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Dear Angela Epstein – I read your recent article on Best Daily and I feel I had to write to you (for anyone who hasn’t read the ‘Having Fat Friends is Such Hard Work’article, you can do so here). – Firstly, I find it disappointing that you find any of your friends hard work. Friendship should be something that makes your life nicer – not harder. However, when I look at the reasons why you find your friendships such hard work  – I am left flabbergasted.

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Taking Body Positive Influences From All Over

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Evening 🙂


If you have read my blog before then you will have seen that I love finding positive body image sources from all over. I have linked to different people before and I think it’s important to surround yourself with positive stuff, where possible. I am not saying it’s a miracle cure, but I am very happy and content in the skin I am in – and for years I have sought out, collected, watched and shared positive images, videos and sayings… I guess the two are related!


Anyway, when I find pieces that I like, I want to share them because I think its important for people to have places they can stumble across little rays of sunshine when they didn’t expect it – so here you go!





Carrie Hope Fletcher


The little sister of Tom McFly has had a YouTube channel for a while now. I don’t pretend to know lots of facts about her but I do love her singing voice! Anyway, last week she released this video of her talking about body image, her own body and how she feels about confidence etc. I really enjoyed watching it and I hope you will too! 🙂




Hollie McNish

I have blogged about Hollie before and my love of her poems. This week I was reminded of her words when I found out that some of her poetry was being used for Dove adverts. 

My favourite of hers is a poem called “WOW”


One of her Dove advert ones can be seen/heard here:





I love all of these pieces – and a couple more by Hollie McNish. As ever I love Mary Lambert, Natasha Devon and so many other people!


Surrounding myself with positive influences like this really helps me to be happy with who I am… 


What do you do to help yourself with body confidence? Do you find people influential to the way you feel about your body?


I’d love to know your thoughts!

A Little Bit Of Sparkle

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Over the last few weeks I have been searching for Christmas dresses. Not just for me, but in general. I love summer for all of its bright colours, I am not a fan of Autumn browns and dull colours but then Christmas comes and suddenly it’s all glitz, glamour and sparkle – and I love it!


I was over the moon when the team at Yours Clothing* gave me the chance to try one of their new dresses and choose this dress, simply because of the little bit of sparkle and sequins it has… I have a proper love affair going on with sequins at the moment!


Red And Black Short Sleeve Lace 2 In 1 Dress



The sparkle and sequins don’t show up massively well in the photo, but I can assure you that they do look sparkly – but also not too over the top for people are worried about having TOO much sparkle (if there is such a thing!)

I wore the dress out at the weekend, to meet a group of friends for a night out. As soon as I arrived they all told me that they loved what I was wearing and that ‘why hadnt I worn it before?’. None of them knew it was a gifted item and none of them would give compliments if they didn’t mean it – so I knew it was a good item! You can buy the item here.

I got my usual size and found it very generous. I could easily have sized down one size, possibly two if i didnt mind it being a bit more fitted. That said, I love the size because its nice and comfy to wear and the length is good (I wore it with leggings but I oculd have gone iwthout them if it wasn’t so cold).

I didn’t have anyone to take my photos this weekend, so plesse excuse the mirror photos – but you’ll get an idea of what it looks like.


And a little bit drunker, less posy photo… just for good measure!



The only problem with this dress? That it’s available in teal which I’ll need to buy too!

What sparkles do you have for this Christmas? Send me your links, I can never have enough sparkle!

Debz xx

*This was a gifted item, but all views are open, honest and completely my own!

Hard Out Here – Is It What We Really Need?

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Hard Out Here – You know me – I love anything that is body image positive, especially those people who use arts, music, poems etc to get their message across. [Read more…]

Lady in Red – Plus Size ASOS Dress

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Plus Size ASOS Dress – I have had this red dress from ASOS Curve in my wardrobe for a while, but haven’t had a chance to wear it. This weekend I decided to be a lady in red for the Plus London After Dark Party and then my trip to BGP in the evening. I wore it with leggings (surprisingly I know!) and some sparkly silver shoes. I loved the fit of the top and enjoyed wearing it. [Read more…]

Plus London – What I Wore

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As you will probably have seen – I attended Plus London, a London based bloggers/plus size event last weekend. Leading up to the event I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to wear – I knew I would be out and about all day, so I wanted to make sure I was comfortable as well as looked good… After all, with so many fabulous plus size bloggers in attendance I couldn’t be left behind in the style stakes!


In the end I opted for my green ASOS wrap around top, leggings and my trusty flats from Primark.



The backdrop is the back of the Hoxton Arches gallery where Plus London was held – how amazing does it look?



I had some professional photos taken on the day so I’ll get those posted soon too!


Did you attend Plus London? I lusted after SO many outfits on the day, so please send me links so I can lust some more!


Debz xx

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