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Dutch CMTeen Earns

24,000

INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS

With Copies of Taylor Swift
Tour Outfits

DUTCH CMTEEN LOTTE LUTJE says her family knew she had CMT pretty much as
soon as she was born. Her sister has it as well.

Lotte has always been into creativity and making pretty things. Her friends (and pretty
much everyone her age) enjoy sports and physical activities, but sports were never
really her thing, for obvious reasons. She felt left out and she hated her body for it.
That’s partially what made Lotte fall in love with Taylor Swift and her music-it always
made her feel better.

Being the creativity addict that she is, Lotte made loads of fanart and attended lots
of shows. For one, she and her friends all decided to dress up in one of Taylor’s tour
outfits. These weren’t for sale anywhere so it just seemed logical to Lotte to try and
make them herself. Her grandma helped her and Lotte fell in love with making and
designing clothes. She recreated more and more of Taylor’s iconic outfits and started
seeing how much other people liked them and appreciated her work and skill. And
so she went from feeling pretty useless to having over 24,000 instagram followers
looking forward to more of her work!

Lotte says it made me realize that her body isn’t useless “and also that one can look
fierce as heck, even with CMT.” She knows now that she doesn’t need athletic skills in
order to be important or appreciated. Lotte’s philosophy is: “Doing what you love and
doing it your own way is all you need.”

Lotte, 18, is currently studying design at a California university.

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