Help Faye Recover from Rape

Hi there, I’m Courtney or Faye as I’m known online,

I'm sure most of the people who find their way here will know me from a space or community online. I would say that I’m most known for my plus size, body positive, feminist self portraiture that I’ve shared online for many years and in many different capacities including being a member of Babefest magazine.

Most of the people who know me well would describe me as genuine, hard working, honest and generous with a big personality. I am someone who puts everyone before myself. If I care about you, I will give you anything and help you in any way that I can. Which makes posting a page like this very hard for me but I am here to ask for your help.

About two months ago I went on a date with someone that I didn’t know very well. That night changed my life forever when I was attacked and raped. Since then, I’ve suffered from a multiple complications including becoming pregnant. After much soul searching I made the  decision to get an abortion. There really are no words that can possibly describe what I’ve gone through both emotionally and physically over the last couple months. The only thing that I can tell you is that I’m broken. I feel as though that person took everything from me. As if I’m walking around in a body that I do not recognize as a completely new person. Nothing that I was exists in me anymore which hurts beyond measure because I loved who I was. I was strong, confident, independent, beautiful, positive and everyday of my life I tried to make something or someone better even  in the smallest way. I so desperately just want to get back to that. I just want to feel like myself again. I was proud to be that woman.

To do that, I need your help. Right now I’m away from home, I’m alone, trying to better a previous bad situation and dig myself out of debt that I was left after a failed relationship with someone who was very dishonest. I’m doing my best paying towards old debt month after month but the additional $2500.00 in medical bills that I’ve just accumulated as well as the ongoing cost of therapy to try to heal from that night have me in a very bad spot. Any donations received through this page will go to help pay for this medical debt or go toward ongoing therapy sessions to help with my healing journey.

Anything that any one of you who are reading this page could do would mean the world to me. I obviously understand how tight money can be, so please know that even the smallest donations still help. $5 still gets me closer to my goal. I don’t think that there would be any way for me to convey the gratitude I have for anyone who donates, anyone who reads this message or watches the video and passes this along to their friends or shares it over their social media. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.