Felicia Foxx:
My name is Felicia Foxx, and my birth name is Wendell French. I'm a proud Kamilaroi and Dunghutti Sistergirl, and I am from Campbelltown.

Felicia Foxx:
I have always had body issues and struggled with my body image and the body image that I portrayed. Growing up and struggling with my sexual identity, whether I was gay or not, and seeing the portrayed image of what a gay male was supposed to look like on the gay scene in Sydney, I always thought that my body wasn't good enough or that I didn't fit into environments or scenes or little cliques that they already had here in Sydney.

Felicia Foxx:
So for me, body image concerns or problems started at a very young age. Growing up in a male dominated family that were very athletic and seeing that they were more masculine and beefy, I always thought that I was the little black sheep of the family and being little skinny, slim, straight up and down one was wasn't normal. I thought that I had to portray the exact body image that they portrayed.

Felicia Foxx:
I started to push everyone away. I didn't hang around with many people. I probably made myself more depressed than I should have been by keeping myself locked away and not putting myself into environments where ... I was paranoid where I was going to go into a venue or go into a situation where I thought I was going to get judged. But I was most likely not going to get judged, but I had it in my head that I was.

Felicia Foxx:
Around family and friends, I didn't want to speak to them about it. I didn't want them to know that really deep down inside I hated the way I looked. So I guess I just kept it to myself for a very long time until I had in my head that I wouldn't open up to somebody about it until I heard that they had similar issues or that they experienced something like this in the past.

Felicia Foxx:
Doing drag for me has made me love myself immensely. I love myself all around now. With my drag, I would tell stories through body positivity. I'll undress myself on stage. I won't wear stockings now. I always used to be ashamed of my scars. I was born with a dent in my chest, and now I embrace that and I show my body through my drag and embracing what we were born with and the showing people that I love myself before. Like Ru Paul says, "Love yourself before you go and love anybody else." Just really showing and connecting with peoples in the crowds when I'm performing, I hope that people see me loving my most unique, authentic self.

Felicia Foxx:
For me, what really helped me overcome my issues was speaking out about them. Just like anything else in the world, you're not going to know something's up, or you're not going to read somebody's mind until they do come out and speak up about something.

Felicia Foxx:
Finding someone that you do have a lot of trust in is probably the most important thing, because you need to speak up about those shared experiences. I guess that's the way we do move forward as a person is speaking about our issues and overcoming them. I've learnt, facing the issues that I've faced, that it's okay to feel anything that you're feeling.

Felicia Foxx:
It's okay someday still now, till this day to wake up and ... Still to this day, I still look in the mirror and look at some parts of my body and think this could be better or that could be better. But I just wake up every day and, I guess, feel grateful now that I have spoken about these issues to people because I know that some days I'm going to feel shit about my body. Some days I'm going to feel good. Never compare yourself to anybody in this world and think that you should look exactly like them or you should portray the fantasy of what you're supposed to look like. Know that you are perfect, and every inch of you is unique. There's not a body on this Earth exactly like yours, so love yourself and share your experiences and speak out.