Watch the girl who transformed herself into a “human rainbow”
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A girl, who went through years of depression after moving from Singapore to America in 2010, has finally talked about her journey.
Kristina transformed herself into a “human rainbow” after becoming pregnant during her high school years.
To overcome depression and inspire her son Enzo, Kristina transformed herself into a “human rainbow”.
23-year-old Kristina recently talked about her journey. She told Barcroft Studios: “Before I found out that I had my son I literally didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I thought I would just take the safe route and do what my parents wanted and become a nurse or something.”
“The birth of my son pushed me to wear colorful extravagant clothing because I want to teach my child to not let anything hold him back from doing anything that he wants in life.”
“Clothes aren’t really just material things to me, they are also things that can change your mood. Clothes can be really emotional things for a lot of people.”
Now, she lives with her son, Enzo and her husband Edgar in Austin, Texas.
Kristina wears extravagant clothes inspired by Japanese street fashion. She said: “A lot of my style is inspired by Harajuku fashion from Japan. I really love Decora fashion, which is one of the sub-genres of Harajuku fashion, and basically you kind of just decorate yourself.”
“My personal style is basically a mash-up of all the things that I love – mainly rainbows.point 294 |
I love rainbows so much and so I wanted to embody the whole rainbow vibe.point 59 | Just imagine if a rainbow was a human being, that would be me.point 109 | ”point 112 | 1
She opened up about her struggle with depression and how she overcame. She said: “The move to America was a really big drastic change for my family and it was after the move that things went downhill really fast. I had a bunch of issues – a lot of personal stuff going on – and that was when I found out I had depression and it was really rough time in my life.”
“It was a very lonely time period. I isolated myself from a lot of people and it led to a lot of running away from home and a lot of suicidal thoughts and self-harm. I didn’t end up finding help until it was really bad. I ended up staying in a mental institute for teenagers for about a week, and that time in psychiatric care kind of changed everything.”
“Growing up, my style was definitely not very colourful.point 266 |
So after that whole dark, deep depression, I ended up finding out that I was pregnant and it was a huge surprise.point 92 | This was around junior year of high school so I was really scared because I didn’t have a diploma yet and I didn’t have a job either.point 211 |
So I didn’t know what to do.point 28 | ”point 31 | 1
“I was always just in bed on Tumblr all the time. And so I would see all these pictures of people wearing Harajuku fashion and I would think, ‘I wish I could dress like that.’ I just kept thinking about it and it kind of clicked in my head; ‘Why am I holding myself back? Is this what I want to teach my future child – that I have to hold myself back from the things that I want to do in life? Do I want to teach him to just play it safe all your life?’”
“I just want to focus on myself and the people that are around me and who are important to me. Just kind of focus on you and the people that you love and not worry about anybody else”, she concluded.