
One Of The Original Plus-Size Influencers



Chenese is featured in the Fall Issue of FabUplus Magazine! FabUplus is a health, fitness and lifestyle magazine dedicated to women with curves and is available on newsstands nationwide throughout the United States and Canada! In the U.S. you can purchase a copy from Barnes & Noble and in Canada, you can purchase it […]

A special screening of the body-positive documentary film “Embrace” will be held Saturday, September 30th at Mellow Mushroom in New Orleans. Immediately following will be an interactive panel discussion to continue the conversation surrounding body image. Panelists include Chenese Lewis, Jaclyn McCabe, Leora Madden, Mark Berger, and Ann Mahoney from “The Walking Dead”. Proceeds from the event […]

Joining the judging panel at the 2017 Miss Plus America Pageant in Dallas this July will be a familiar face — a former titleholder. Chenese Lewis, Miss Plus America 2003, will judge this year’s Miss Plus America Pageant, the 15th anniversary of the pageant system created exclusively for plus size women. Lewis made history by being the first […]

The AMERICAN WOMAN Project is a multimedia portrait and documentary series that aims to reframe what we think of when we hear the descriptor “American woman” to include Black American women.This project was partially funded by the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant and Safety Pin Box. AMERICAN WOMAN is being realized as a series of mixed/multi-media portraits […]