Your life may not turn out exactly how you expected or hoped, but it will be so much better than you could have ever imagined. Each inspirational chapter concludes with a treasured family recipe for cupcakes and other scrumptious desserts.įor anyone with big dreams, Gigi’s message is simple: believe in yourself, walk with integrity, work hard, and trust in God. With spunk, humor, and insight, she weaves her hard-won wisdom and business acumen into the fun, fascinating, and instructive stories of her life. Now, in The Secret Ingredient, Gigi reveals how her failure led her to explore her passion for baking and how she became a successful businesswoman. The news of her cupcakes spread quickly, and the franchise became a huge success. With the help and support of her family, she was able to open her first store in a prime Nashville location. If she wouldn’t be a successful singer, she decided she would grow a business that she could be proud of.Īn extraordinary baker throughout her life, she decided to open a cupcake shop with all the money she could pull together. Cleaning houses by day to support herself for over a decade, she realized that God had other plans for her. When she moved to Nashville at nineteen, she had her heart set on becoming a country music star.
At age fifteen, she bought cleaning supplies and started a cleaning service out of her rural California home. At age seven, she sold eggs out of her little red wagon to neighbors. Featuring delicious dessert recipes for cupcakes and more in each chapter.Īs a young child, Gigi knew that if she wanted to succeed, she had to work hard and offer a service that people wanted to buy. Our review is the first to propose a comprehensive explanation of systemic negative body image for queer men.The founder of Gigi’s Cupcakes shares her personal success story, her hard-won business acumen, and the life-changing inspiration that has helped her follow her dreams in this warm-hearted and encouraging memoir that “will inspire savvy entrepreneurs to invest in their own dreams” (Daymond John, star of ABC’s Shark Tank ).
Finally, we present a synthesized model of the processes outlined in this review, articulate testable predictions for future studies, and describe practical implications that could be widely employed to improve body image for queer men. Next, we describe how systemic stigma works to exacerbate negative health outcomes for queer men with body image concerns. Through the lens of hegemonic masculinity, we explain how systemic experiences of stigma work to inform unattainable appearance standards for queer men, and how these standards then contribute to pervasive negative body image concerns among this community. By synthesising existing theoretical frameworks, research, policy, and media reporting, this narrative review moves towards an understanding of systemic-level negative body image for queer men. While existing literature has examined individual-level predictors of negative body image for queer men, less is known about why queer men as a group are disproportionately affected by negative body image. Queer men (i.e., men who are not heterosexual sexual minority men) are disproportionately affected by negative body image – they experience greater body dissatisfaction are more likely to develop eating disorders than heterosexual men.
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