Blain told Blavity that she had to make drastic changes to her lifestyle, and while walking outside in 90 degrees Fahrenheit weather during her break with a coworker, inspiration struck when her colleague muttered, “F**k being fat.”

Blain echoed the sentiment.

“I was like, I’m gonna put that on T-shirts. Then fast forward two years after that, we started a weight-loss challenge, and I didn’t know what to call it, so I was like, it’s gonna be called the f**k being fat challenge. That was in August; November, we started with our first T-shirts, and I was like, ‘I’m gonna put the f**k being fat on the T-shirt,’ and then that’s how FBF started,” she told Blavity.

Blain shared that she eventually had to model her business’ operations around her brain disorder.

“I was placed on a bunch of medications that made me stutter, lose my memory. I had to look at diet and exercise as a way to basically heal myself, and that led to me wanting to help other people be proactive in their health as well, which is why I started the FBF, with the fat weight-loss challenge,” she said.

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