My introduction - Hi steemit! My name is Bonaventure and I'm a international model.

- Hi, my name is Bonaventure.
* Oh, so your mother had a good adventure when she made you? 

Yes, my name means "good adventure" in french and yes .. I get a lot of sex jokes regarding my name. But what can I say, the name kinda grew on me and I wouldn't change it for the world. I always have something to start the conversation with.

Before I dive into me being a model (a subject I would love to do some articles about), maybee a small background story to give an idea where I come from:

My teenage years

I didn't have the most happy teenage years. My parents divorced when I was 10 years old and kept fighting over money the following 8 years. They absolutely hated eachother (well.. they still do). At my 18th I lost all contact with my father and I woudn't hear from him until my 23 years old. 

If this wasn't enough I got bullied during high school aswel. Not being able to talk about it with anyone I ended up in a really dark place and didn't see many reason to live anymore (I was 14 years old this period). Luckely I got saved when I changed school at my 16th. I choose to delete everything from my past and start fresh. And with deleting everything, I really mean deleting everything: I burned all pictures of this period and blocked every memory. 

The first picture I have of me in my life (I was 17 years old here):

 

".. Yea I know, I could have been a member of a one direction band or something haha :D"

One of my goals in life is to make an impact with people who are confronted with bullying, give them strength to fight through this and to stand up for themselves. I mean I was bullied for my appearance and now I'm a model ... fuck logic right?
Hopefully this article is one step closer to my goal.

Sometimes I ask myself how I got through this lonely period. And however I can't say exactly what gave my the strength to wake up everyday and live another day in hell, some little things gave me hope. Like my dog Jêrome, I mean it sounds stupid but he needed me and I needed him. There is always someone out there who cares about you, always.

" My little doggy friend " 

Now

I'm now 23 years old and I finally made peace with the whole bullying and divorce situation. I'm doing a postgraduate "digital storytelling" and these studies I combine with modelling. The modelling was something I rolled into when I was 18/19 years old. I started with very small fashion shows, shows where the average age of the audience was 65 years old and they were there because they have nothing else to do. Over the years I worked my way up and now I travel to other countries to shoot for big companies and big brands like Massimo dutti, Calvin Klein,.... But more on that in future posts.

"Shoot I did in Madrid for ElCorteIngles, the biggest online and offline store of Spain"

Next to modelling, I travel a lot (for the job and in my free time), I love sports with a board and I'm interested in digital storytelling and in cryptocurrencies... so that how I ended up here :D

Now I've been briefly introduced, I hope to meet some of the people here and read some interesting content of you guys!

Hear you very soon!