Emme
Birth Name:
Melissa Owens Miller
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, United States
Fast Facts
- Is a member of the Healthy Media Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls and an Ambassador for the USGBC Center for Green Schools
- As the creative director of EmmeNation, she has served as a women's advocate for positive body image and self esteem
- Was named one of the 25 Most Influential Women by Biography magazine, twice named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine, and selected as Woman of the Y ear by Glamour magazine
- Was the host of the E! Entertainment Television series "Fashion Emergency․"
- Quote: "The time has come for all media to take responsibility in the creative reflection of women and girls․"
- Quote: "We live in a society that promotes a desire for thinness at any cost․․․I want women to know their self-esteem is not contingent upon their dress size and good health is attainable by more than just one body type․"
- Best known as a plus-size supermodel, author, and television personality who hosted the reality dating series "More to Love․"
- Travels the country on the EmmeNation Whole You National Tour, which features events like the Girlfriend Get Away Weekends and the Whole You Cruise
- Became the first plus-size model to have a collectable doll sculpted in her likeness thanks to Robert Tonner's EMME doll
- Appeared in the off-Broadway play "Love, Loss and What I Wore" in 2011