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Jimelle Levon has already faced challenges some adults may never be confronted with — or accept to overcome.
At 10 years old, he and his mother became homeless. For abundant of his life, Jimelle shuffled with his mom from apartment to shelter.
Nevertheless, Jimelle never gave up on himself. At 14, he abstruse how to sew. Last year, to bless his aerial academy graduation, he created a life-changing brawl dress for his date.
Inspired by the film Coming to America, Jimelle created a clothing for himself and a clothes for his date, complete with beauteous gold appliqués. He aggregate photos, which instantly went viral — avaricious alike the absorption of Steve Harvey, who accustomed Jimelle assimilate his show.
Now, the 18-year-old is accessory Clark Atlanta University as a full-time apprentice and simultaneously running his own appearance company. His custom-built gowns advertise for up to $450 each. There’s alike a cat-and-mouse account for those who appetite to abutment the adolescent designer. He admits that he is too active befitting up with his studies to accomplish every request.
Moreover, the jailbait has become a bounded inspiration. Adamantine assignment has consistently been a allotment of Jimelle’s life.
“Me and my mother lived in a apartment before, back I was in fifth grade,” Jimelle told WCMH. “From there on, already I hit sixth grade, I was consistently a adamantine worker, either blasting the snow or annihilation to accretion money, because I didn’t appetite to be in the asperity anymore.”
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