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Marie
My favorite memory of shooting for ESSENCE would absolutely have to be the first time I shot for the magazine. I grew up with it being a staple in our house. I can remember flipping through the pages looking at these beautiful brown women who actually looked like me and dreaming one day that I would be in this magazine too.
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Kashanna
The ESSENCE cover in 1994 jump-started my modeling career of 20 years. I smile even now recalling the ESSENCE team. We’d giggle about our Black girl shapes, and they’d chat about what magazines we’d been sighted in with a sparkle of pride that made gearing up for shoots feel more like family reunions.