Kristina Contes Comments on HOF Disqualification

From Kristina Contes' blog a few minutes ago:

And in the vein of CK...just got off the phone with a lovely woman who broke the news about their decision. I want everyone to know I am happy with their choice. As I have stated before, I just want to SCRAP. I have been very busy this year, mat some amazing women I now call my friends and got to share so much...but also learned alot about the industry through my travels. And while it can be amazing, it can also be down right tiring. Those that have been with me in the last few months know I've been feeling drained and not really "into" it. Which hurts more than anything b/c scrapping is SO important to me. Expressing myself and being creative and just feeling FREE. When you start adding in constant travel, forced creativity, deadlines, corporate politics, expectation and the dollar, well that sort of takes the free-ness right out of it.

SO.

I am writing all this to let everyone know that IT IS OK. I think they absolutely did the right thing (and they apologized for not handling it months ago when I came to them about it) and I am 100% behind their decision. A woman emailed me this week telling me I needed to step down and give her my spot. (lol) The thing no one realized is I would NEVER step down. While I did make a mistake, there are other individuals (not only from this year) that also did the same thing and simply never said anything about it. So I refused to be the scapegoat just because some people dislike me and my usage of the word [censored]. Rules are rules, of course...but when numerous people don't follow them but I have to take their blame as well...that is something I won't do.

I know who I am, I know what I want, I know what I want to do...and all this drama has made it even more clear that I just want to do my thing. I JUST WANT TO MAKE [censored]! So please don't feel like this is a bad thing for me. IT IS NOT. I already said I AM NOT DEFINED BY A MAGAZINE. It's the truth. And at least now all the psychopaths will feel righteous and find someone else to bully and call a [censored].

I appreciate everyone's support during the drama...somehow I lost an entire page of emails so if I haven't written back to some of you know that I am thankful for your kindness and I know that this has helped weed out those who actually like me and those that were just kissing my [censored] cause they thought I could do something for them in the industry. Thank God.

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