About Chanel
For the first week of my life, I had no name. Doctors and family referred to me as “baby girl”, a term of endearment which has not been used in reference to me since. When my parents finally did settle on a name, they struck a home run. Two decades later (give or take), there is no disputing that the name is aptly suited for me.
I was named in an act of rebellion. When my mother had heard Chanel (the company) had the audacity to sue a French couple for naming their daughter Chanel, she decided to play Devil’s advocate, and in an act of defiance against something that made little sense, promptly named me Chanel. It was a very ‘me’ thing to do, even though she didn’t know it at the time.
Undoubtedly, her choice of name and the motivation behind it has framed my personality since the start: From the very beginning, my life has always been about rebelling against the nonsensical “norms” of society and dispelling silly stereotypes.
I like to tell true tales. I’ve led a fairly interesting life for someone my age and I use it to my tale-telling advantage; I collect anecdotes, facts, quotes and memorable experiences and relay them to others in the form of dramatical stories with lots of hand gestures and witty commentary. I’m strange like that.
I’m a very social person. After being homeschooled (self-taught) for the last nine years of my formal education, most people would expect me to be socially retarded. That I am 100% and unequivocally not. If anything, I am more social and more socially independent because of it—and I have the strange, funny and sometime bizarre stories of how I met all my friends and acquaintances to prove it.
Traveling is something I enjoy most immensely. Within the short span of my life so far I have been to four continents (North America, Europe, Africa and Asia), six countries (Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, Israel, Egypt and the Kingdom of Jordan), 21 American states (Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois and Maryland), and 2 Canadian provinces (Alberta and British Columbia). I’d love to see the whole world if I had the time.
I have more than enough hobbies to keep me busy well into my ninth life. In my “spare time”, as I’ve heard it been called (spare time? what’s that?), I enjoy… reading, writing, sewing, cooking, cleaning, ballroom dancing, knitting, figure skating, web and graphic design, running, grocery shopping, and taking pictures, amongst other things.
