Today we’d like to introduce you to Britt Ferg.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Everyday I work and get closer and closer to who I was always suppose to be. Closer to my calling and closer to my dreams. Once upon a time, I never thought I’d be where I am right now and even where I’m headed. Childhood was rough for me emotionally and mentally and those unhealed wounds transitioned over to adulthood. I lacked confidence, courage, self-control, and so many other things I now master without question. My whole life, I felt like the underdog or just the complete outcast. And most of the time, I’ve blamed others for the way they made me feel. Growing up, I realize I have to give myself that love and care first before expecting from other people. Self-care was something I knew nothing about. Instead I constantly fed and gave my energy and time away to everything and everyone but myself. I never felt beautiful or pretty. I never felt like I had genuine relationships.
In my mind, I was the ugly duckling and people only wanted me to use me. Self-worth was at its all-time low if I may say so myself. By the time I graduated high school, I was yearning and looking for attention and love in all the wrong places but was also blessed with two kids nonbiological in that process. To today’s date, me and the mother are no longer together but I still maintain a relationship with my kids. Going through all of that at such an early age and it all ending gave me a reality check that I need to go and live my life and love on myself a little more. The more I continued to look for it in others the worse I felt like my situations kept getting. So I did just that and man what I difference in my life it has made. I shower myself with love and care everyday while striving to be the best version of myself! That’s how modeling came about. I feel if I had representation socially of someone like me growing up, things would have been different for me. I would have had a better understanding on how to navigate through my differences and help others understand too. So I now want to pay that forward and be a face and representation for this generation and the many to come after. You can be who you are and still land on top. I’m still a beautiful black masculine presenting woman and I want to share it with the world. Never compare your journey with the next. And always know that you can do whatever you put your mind too!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No journey is ever a smooth road and if anybody say they did somehow they cheated their way through it. The purpose of obstacles is to see how bad you want the very thing you manifested to you. I am a masculine presenting black lesbian woman. That automatically sets me back on social standards and I have to be aware of that always. In this industry, we are using to seeing a certain look and mine definitely isn’t one of them. But that’s the point and reason on my dream. To inspire and create change and opportunities for people like myself. The more we normalize things the more young people can feel confident to be who they are versus trying to be something you are not
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am currently a full-time professional model and background actor. I aspire to one day be on the big screen mainly because it pushes against societal norms. Everything I strive to be and do surrounds around being the voice for the ones without. I’ve currently already been published in two different magazines, walked in multiple fashion shows and featured in tv shows/movies. It’s really been a long time coming. I never knew I’d even get this far in this industry. All my life, I’ve just never felt good enough and to get where I am on my own with NO agent speaks volumes to my capabilities. I stand out and get told that all the time, from my smile to the way I dress to my swag down to my personality.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
Sometimes I feel like without taking a little risk, you are standing still. Sometimes it takes that little push to get you to the next level. Currently, I’m taking a huge risk to put my business aside and be full-time with this modeling and acting stuff. I don’t get paid nearly as much and a lot of the time, I don’t have all the ends to meet where I need them to. But my faith in where I’m going is so strong. I know I’m destined for greatness. I know my breakthrough is right around the corner. I know that everything I’ve prayed for and cried for is coming to fruition for me. I just have to stay the course and it will all be mine. Without risk, the journey is in vain. As human, we get lost, we make mistakes but that’s all in that learning aspect of it all. You rather make those mistakes and take those risks at the bottom so when you at the top you know when and how to do it.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: www.Instagram.com/brittorferggg
Image Credits
Javius Favors Antoinne Jones V.Dixon Tim Bowser
