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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Grace Francesca Victory (born 29 August 1990) is a British Youtuber, writer, body positive activist and television presenter from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.[1]

Early life

Grace grew up on a council estate in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with her mother Dawn, younger sister Charlotte (known as Charleigh) and her father. Victory is of British-Caribbean heritage.[2]

Through childhood Victory witnessed domestic violence and drug abuse at home, and is currently no longer in contact with her father.[3]

As a child Victory trained at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe, and went on to star in The Bill, Family Affairs and four Harry Potter films.[3]

Career

Victory began her YouTube channel age 21 in 2011.[4] Her channel started out as The Ugly Face of Beauty, with most of her content focussing on make-up and fashion.[5] As her content matured Victory diversified into more personal video and blog content including mental health, eating disorders and domestic violence.[5] As of January 2021 Grace has over 220,000 YouTube subscribers, more than 220,000 Instagram followers and over 90,000 Twitter followers.

In 2016 Victory presented BBC Three's Clean Eating's Dirty Secrets, a documentary about the wellness approach of clean eating.[6]

In March 2017 Victory collaborated with Nike, modelling for their first plus-size apparel campaign.[7] Later in 2017 Grace released her first book No Filter, featuring stories from her life including topics of domestic abuse and mental health.[8]

Since 2019 Victory has been a columnist for Happiful magazine.[9]

Victory's second book How To Calm It was published in January 2021 by #Merky Books, Stormzy's imprint within Penguin Random House.[10]

Personal life

Grace began therapy in 2016 for mental health issues.[2]

Victory announced her pregnancy with partner Lee, in a photograph posted to her social media on 29 August 2020.[11]

In early December 2020 Victory developed mild symptoms of COVID-19,[1] but on 24 December 2020 her son was born prematurely due to COVID-19 complications and the following day she was placed in an induced coma.[11] On 8 March 2021 Grace made a post on Twitter stating "I'm awake" followed by another saying "Baby boy is thriving at home x."

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