My name is Jessica Brown and I am an Ambassador of Christ, a wife, a mother and a Beautiful Brown BOLD Woman. I was born prematurely with a hole in my heart and doctor’s believed I would have a severe mental disability. With a blood transfusion and too many stitches to count across my chest, I made it through and defied the odds. Beginning in middle school, I started suffering from seizures, shaking then blacking out. After years of tests, I was diagnosed Benign Peripheral Vertigo and Hypoglycemic. During that time, I was told if my mother had the option, she would have terminated me. She let me know how much she didn’t like children and told me I had lips too big for red lip stick and nappy hair. I felt alone and ugly. My father is in prison for life and rejected by my mother’s adopted family after being beaten up by her boyfriend and sexually assaulted by my uncle, I became homeless just out of high school. I didn’t feel valued. I didn’t understand love. I didn’t have self-worth and I didn’t feel beautiful. Afraid of men, with stitches across my chest and a scarred heart, I was broken. BUT GOD! I pushed and found Job Corp to obtain my Associates and went on to get my Masters in Education. Made whole in God, He was my Mother and Father and He taught me love and removed the fear of men from me. He gave me dance to talk to Him and He healed me from Vertigo and Hypoglycemia, after 14 years, through food. He showed me my beauty and value. He gave me back my virtue.
I learned to love me and met my husband through ministry, became a mother of two beautiful boys (Malachi and Elijah), a co-founder of a nonprofit (5A Elite Youth Empowerment) and a Senior Pastor of Harvest International Ministries. Praising God and giving Him all the Glory. I am a Beautiful Brown BOLD Woman!