Quinta Brunson had Difficulty Finding a Stylists Because She Had 'the Nerve' to Be Curvy
Quinta Brunson looks beautiful on every red carpet that she graces. The petite beauty gives Hollywood glam from her swooping Gaurav Gupta dress at the Billboard Music Awards to the stunning Jean-Louis Sabaji scalloped shell column gown at the Screen Actors Guild Awards--she doesn't miss.
In a new interview with InStyle, she shares that she struggled to find the right stylist for her curvy frame and because she stands only 4 ft 11 inches tall.
"Not only am I 4-foot-11, [but] I'm 4-foot-11 with breasts and a butt," Brunson said. "And that's just the cardinal sin: to be short and have the nerve to have any type of curve."
"There were times where I would work with other stylists and have to be like, 'I'm not this young,' or, 'this feels too young for me.' And it would be like, 'No, you can pull it off,'" Brunson shared. "And I was like, 'But it's not about pulling it off. It's about what I want to represent when I come to certain award shows or certain events I have to do.'"
"I'm not just an actress, not just a writer, not just a producer, not just a showrunner," she added. "I want to make sure I can convey who I am through what I wear."
Brunson eventually found her style match in Bryon Javar who had experience styling similarly sized stars like Marsai Martin and Karrueche Tran.
"As I talk to Bryon about how I want to present [myself at] an award show or an event, I'm like, Wow … I'm getting to say who I am through the clothing and I plan to do that more because I plan to talk less in the future," she said.
In the article, Brunson also talks about the topic of reinvention having started her career doing short clips on Buzzfeed, to acting, and finally creating her own Emmy-winning show.
“I don’t think reinvention is always intentional. I don’t think I’ve ever sat down and said, ‘It’s time for me to reinvent.’ I think that as my life changes, career changes, [and] work changes, the reinventions are necessary. I like to look at it more as evolution and moving with the waves of time."
Before acting, Brunson was a dancer. “I did all of it: ballet, tap, jazz, modern, [and] acrobatics,” she says. “After a certain point, you either make that your profession or you move on.”
While she moved on successfully, she still carries some of the lessons that dance taught her. “Dancing is learning how to have control over your own body at a very young age. We usually hear about control in a manipulative way or in reference to sex, sexual control, or attractiveness. But I’m talking about truly having ownership over the mechanics of your own body, learning to control different muscles."
She adds, “I’ll talk to friends who came into appreciating their bodies much older or who still have trouble appreciating their own body and it makes me realize over and over and over again how much dance did for me. My body is mine. I work it, I control it, and it doesn’t belong to anyone else. I believe in God. I have a very spiritual relationship. I believe I’m a vessel. But this is still my temple.”