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Hi, my name is Michaela De Prince, and I am accepting this
challenge to design my own t-shirt.
Hi, my name is Michaela De Prince and I’m proud ambassador with
War Child Holland and proud mommy of a very, very cute puppy.
This is Billy Blue.
He has blue eyes.
He's like a golden doodle and labradoodle mix, and
he's super, super cute.
A fashion item that I can't live without?
Heels, but the highest heel, the better.
If I wear flats, I will fall.
I will hurt myself if I wear thin heels.
I would hurt myself, but platform heels, I'm great with.
The higher, the better.
The last time I cried was a few hours ago, to be honest.
My father passed away over a month and a half ago, so I've been dealing
with that and I called my boyfriend a few hours ago about it and it's a
struggle that you have to deal with.
I've dealt with a lot of loss, but I think having to cry and accepting
that it's okay to cry, it's okay and it's not a weakness, it's
just how it is and I don't think anybody should be ashamed of it.
So, I cried a few hours ago.
Cuba, Havana, I mean amazing.
The people, the culture.
Oh, I could live there forever.
I absolutely loved it.
All right, Michaela, are you ready to design?
Yeah, definitely.
Okay, great.
So, yeah, let's start with picking out the canvas.
Yes, I thought a crop top would be super, super cute.
That's something I definitely would wear and then, I also
thought about like the writing.
I thought the first font would be great or the second font.
Yeah, that one, perfect!
And would you like to have it at the front or the back?
The back would be awesome.
Oh, so tiny.
It's super tiny.
It's a tiny surprise to your t-shirt.
I think for me, “I rise” just represents my whole life of the
fact that I'm born into war.
I'm born into the fact that I lost parents and I lost people who loved
me and cared about me and still, I was able to overcome it and rise
and everything that got thrown to me and the things that could have
stopped me from being successful, I continue to rise above it.
Of course, you have your struggles, but at the end of the day, you're
able to overcome it and rise above it and be the best you possibly can
be, and that's why “I rise” really, really represents who I am and
what I want on the t-shirt as well.
I really like just like the Tommy signature, to be honest.
I think it's very cute.
Did you have a mind where you would like to have that one,
at the front, or at the back?
I think if it's under “I rise”, that'd be really cool.
All right.
And I would love to also apply because my name is Michaela to
put an M somewhere in the front on the left side if possible.
Yeah.
It's a big friend.
Oh, it's a big M.
It's a very big M.
But the M is very important for you.
Yeah.
Can I see it on the back?
Yes, of course.
Oh, that's cute.
You can also put something on the shoulders in some numbers.
Oh, let's do 2022.
Oh, no.
Yeah, 22. Is that possible?
Yeah, sure.
When I was adopted, my birthday got mixed up and my original
birthday is actually June 22nd.
It happens a lot with adoptions, but I think now that I'm an
adult, I really want to embrace the real birthday and I think
22 is just an incredible number.
It's cute to also have on a t-shirt and yeah, I just feel
like with this, I just really want to embrace who I am as a person
and everything that I represent.
I've been like it's… I might get teary-eyed.
I am a bit sensitive today, but I've been very blessed to be able
to just have the ounce of success and the ounce to be able to love
something so deeply and I know and I believe all children should be able
to experience the fact that okay, maybe I can do something in the arts
and I just want to be able to give back to my country where I was born
that you can just find, just find a bit of the arts in you and I feel
in general like the arts saved me, it saved my sisters and my brothers
and the art, it's just its culture.
It finds a way… it helps you find a way to express yourself.
It helps you find a way to heal.
It helps you find a way to just find different emotions and so I want to
find a way to be able to give that to my country, which is why I can't
wait to be able to open up my art school.
Nice, no?
I like it.
I think this looks great then. -Yeah?
All right.
I've accepted this challenge to be able to design a t-shirt and now I’m
passing the challenge to you, and I hope you can accept this challenge.
Thank you, bye!