Chrisette is comfortable in the skin she’s in even if others might not be.
“My first and worst experience was going to a photo shoot for a magazine that shall remain nameless. I know they knew I was a size 14, I know they knew it. I know they knew I wasn’t a size 2! I came up in there and it was a rack of beautiful clothes and I couldn’t fit in none of them. And so they hand me a men’s pair of jeans and a man’s button up and a little tiny, itsy itsy belt off the lady who was doing the styling. I cried. I was so upset.
“As a new artist there’s a whole bunch of stuff I wish I knew like, don’t spend the first check you get on a Mercedes Benz, "Chrisette tells Jill Scott in an ESSENCE interview. “You don’t have to take a band out for your first tour. Different ways of managing your money in the beginning.”