Black Woman Entrepreneur Who Weighs 500 Pounds to Host SuperSize Your Life Expo in Two Cities

Nationwide — Distinctive Gibson, a 500-pound African American girl, entrepreneur, retired social employee, and lifelong advocate of fats activism and dimension inclusivity, is internet hosting the 2025 SuperSize Your Life Expo in Chicago this June and once more in Atlanta this August. That is the primary and solely occasion created solely to uplift the prolonged plus-size neighborhood (sizes 26+). The occasion can also be for individuals who undergo from Lipedema and Lymphedema, two ailments that have an effect on the lymphatic system and are sometimes mistaken for weight problems.

The SuperSize Your Life Expo is about bridging the hole between the plus-size neighborhood, the medical trade, and the style world. It’s about extra than simply illustration — it’s about empowerment. Greater than 2,000 persons are anticipated to attend and over 250 distributors have been invited, specializing in plus-size vogue, journey, wellness, magnificence, and Lipedema/Lymphedema help.

Attendees will expertise empowerment audio system, confidence-building workshops, and vogue showcases that affirm the sweetness, power, and value of each particular person. Luxurious magnificence activations and product sampling might be accessible, reinforcing the easy reality: plus-size people should really feel fairly, pampered, and valued too.

The occasion is about residing life in the present day unapologetically and with self-assurance. To take care of this spirit of empowerment and celebration, the expo doesn’t settle for weight-loss services or products.

Distinctive, who’s 54 years previous, feedback, “We’re sick and drained — of being unwelcome, underestimated, devalued. We’re sick of being advised we’re unworthy and undeserving, and that our existence is a burden. This expo is for each individual on the plus-size spectrum, particularly these dimension 26+ who, like Fannie Lou Hamer mentioned, are ‘sick and uninterested in being sick and drained.’ “It’s additionally for each Lipedema and Lymphedema warrior who has been disregarded of important care as a result of a scarcity of assets and the shortage of the ailments’ inclusion in fashionable medical examine.”

The SuperSize Your Life Expo 2025 will happen in two cities:

• Chicago, IL – June 21-22, 2025• Atlanta, GA – July 19-20, 2025

This 12 months’s expos aren’t nearly visibility, they’re about partnership and alter. The SuperSize Your Life Expo is bridging the hole between the plus-size neighborhood, the medical trade, and the style world.

For the Chicago occasion, a groundbreaking patient-led city corridor will deliver hospital directors and medical leaders collectively to listen to firsthand from plus-size sufferers and Lipedema/Lymphedema warriors about their experiences within the healthcare system. It is a uncommon alternative for the medical neighborhood to hear, study, and collaborate on options to make healthcare extra inclusive and accessible.

For the Atlanta occasion, a vogue trade roundtable will give plus-size customers and trade leaders the prospect to debate what’s lacking in plus-size vogue. Retailers and designers will acquire genuine, beneficial suggestions straight from the individuals who want their merchandise essentially the most.

These boards usually are not about confrontation, they’re about collaboration. The aim is to spark actual change and construct lasting partnerships that profit each industries and the plus-size neighborhood.

Sponsorship and Partnership Alternatives

The SuperSize Your Life Expo is increasing and searching for model companions who imagine in a extra inclusive world. Massive Fig Mattress, NAAFA, and JOBST USA have already dedicated to supporting this motion, and the occasion welcomes extra manufacturers that want to have interaction with an underserved but highly effective client base.

There are vendor alternatives in addition to sponsorship alternatives for occasion activations, VIP entry, and in depth model visibility.

The best way to Attend:

These curious about attending in Chicago or Atlanta should purchase their tickets on-line through the official website online at SSYLExpo.com

Additionally, you’ll want to observe the occasion on Instagram and Fb.

For press inquiries or enterprise inquiries, contact distinctive@ssylexpo.com or (943) 244-8025