Jess Quinn

Firstly, if you see this & you want to leave a nasty comment, please just scroll on. I’ve had a bit of stage fright with posting lately because whenever I share my unique body it seems to reach a lot of people and that unfortunately brings a lot of negative comments. Sometimes I think, maybe I share too much, maybe I should stop showing my body in its entirety but then I think maybe I should show it more because the negativity shows just how much people don’t understand the different experiences others go through. I’ve been sharing on the internet for 8 years and my mission has never changed, it’s always been to “normalise different”. To showcase a unique body in the hopes that others feel less alone about the things that make them different or the things they feel insecure about. If you woke up today disliking the way your body looks or feeling down about your body, I hope this video finds you & reminds you that we are all different & that is a beautiful thing 🫶🏼 #normalisenormalbodies #bodyacceptance #bodypositivity #rotationplasty

I can not believe how lucky our daughter is to get to call him Dad. #girldad #parents #pregnancy #knitting #husband

I often get asked by parents, “how do I teach my kid about different bodies?” I believe the first step is watching how you speak about your body, & how you speak of others around you. Our kids absorb so much of what we say, and how we interact. Another step is allowing their curiosity. I can easily tell the kids who have been told not to stare at me, and yes it’s a hard one to navigate because staring can cause angst but I love nothing more than a young kid who has the confidence and curiosity to ask about my leg and almost every single time their response is pretty incredible. They say it’s like a robot or as my niece says, “aunty Jess, I love your special leg”. Allow them to be curious about those who are different because that is how they learn. Another step is finding ways to surround your kids with those you are different from them, whether that be kids who are a different ethnicity or people with disabilities or different cultures, it’s so important our kids grow up seeing the diverse world we live in 🤍

TW: fertility. I didn’t realise until today just how much anticipation I used to hold each month before my period came. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions while you convince yourself that every symptom you’re feeling is potentially pregnancy but simultaneously undermining every symptom in order to not get your hopes up. Then your period arrives & you try tell yourself it’s ok, you question if maybe it’s implantation bleeding or maybe the timing wasn’t right or maybe I didn’t do the right things or maybe the universe is telling me I shouldn’t do this? And this repeats month after month, while you go about your life. And honestly, it takes a serious toll. Until one day, your period doesn’t come & instead you see a positive test and somehow you forget just how hard it was to get to this moment. For anyone in the thick of this cycle, I am sending you so much love. It’s not easy to silently get your hopes up month after month. I hope more than anything that you meet your little darling soon 🫶🏼 #ttc #periodtalk #fertilityjourney #endometriosis #endowarrior #womenshealth

And that right there is more than she’ll ever need. #mumlife #amputee #mumsoftiktok #mumanddaughter #disabilityawareness

Who else is battling with me?! 🙋🏻‍♀️ They’re clubs no one wants to be in but the community is pretty epic! Follow along if you want to hear more about my journey 🤍 #chronicillness #chronicillnesswarrior #spoonie #endo #endometriosis #endowarrior #disabilityawareness #disabledtiktok #youvegotthis #nztiktok

Isn’t life so wild? I spent a long time wondering if I’d ever find someone to do life with, & then all of a sudden I met Todd. We then spent a long time trying to fall pregnant, I began to wonder if it would ever happen for us, & then we met Marla. In the moment, these things feel so hard and it’s near impossible to imagine them ever happening. Then they happen and it all makes sense. One of my favourite quotes by Steve Jobs is, “you can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect on your future”, it’s so damn true. You just never know what’s waiting for you around the corner 🫶🏼 #parentinglife #mumlife #nzmum #girldad #dadlife

The way she just sat there watching 🥹 We all have differences, yet we’ve had it ingrained in us that we should hide them. We all have insecurities, things we look in the mirror and don’t feel proud of but your kids aren’t looking for a “perfect” parent, they’re looking to be loved. It’s crossed my mind a few times, “I wonder what Marla will think when she starts to realise I’m different from her friends mums” and then I remind myself that I get to choose that narrative. I can either show her that I am ashamed of my differences or I can show her that my differences are nothing to be ashamed of, that I survived something incredibly tough & that I love myself regardless of them. I hope that she will then she herself, her differences & other people’s differences in the same light. I can’t wait to tell her all about why I am the way I am 🫶🏼 #bedifferent #bodyacceptance #bodypositive #mumlife #nztiktok

body. Today I put on a dance workout & let Marla watch. It was so damn cute, she was babbling away and moving around. Bit by bit I hope she will piece together that she should be proud of her body, that she can move in whatever way works for her & that our bodies aren’t meant to be perfect 🤍 The workouts in doing are from @growwithjo on YouTube, they are SO epic to get the endorphins going & to simply just move!

Ladies - you don’t need a “bad boy”, you need a man who will willingly do your heatless curls & will knit clothes for your kids. You need a Todd 🫶🏼 #heatlesscurls #husband #husbandsoftiktok #husbandgoals #overnightcurls #hairtok