Single Character Photo Story
Jahn Hawkins a disabled model and clothing Fashion Designer and Model Jahn (Arianna) Hawkins gets her measurements taken for a model casting in Des Moines, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024.
Jahn Hawkins participates in a casting for a model show in Des Moines, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024.
Jahn Hawkins finishes eating her meal after the casting for a model show in Des Moines, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024.
Jahn Hawkings does a photoshoot at Laundromania in Coralville on Wednesay, Feb. 14, 2024. Jahn's photographer, Fazon Stanton, takes pictures with his studio lights.
Jahn Hawkings does a photoshoot at Laundromania in Coralville on Wednesay, Feb. 14, 2024. Jahns has seizure symptoms due to her disability and needs the support of her cane when her legs go numb.
Jahn Hawkins works on a pair of thrifted pants accompanied by her "sewing buddy" Clover in Coralville on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Jahn and Clover know each other for more than a year now.
Jahn Hawkins takes the pockets out of thrifted pants to sew them on a top she is working on for a fashion show in Coralville on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Jahns lives with her two cats Buddha aand Kyba.
Jahn finished sewing the denim top she made out of denim pants and puts it into her mannequin in Coralville on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024.
Jahn Hawkins at her full-time job, the Cielo Retail Store at Iowa River Landing, Coraville, IA on Feb. 28, 2024. Jahns Hawkins puts face moisturizer and mascara on after opening the store.
Jahn Hawkins a disabled model and clothing designer shows the bracelet her grandmother gifted her at her full-time job Cielo Retail Store at Iowa River Landing, Coraville, IA on Feb. 28, 2024. "My grandma gifted me this bracelet, I like how beat up it looks because it gives that vintage aspect, shows it has history" Hawkins said.
Arianna Hawkins, preferably called Jahn is a 22 years old black autistic woman, clothing designer, model, and entrepreneur with her own fashion brand, J.A.H.N. Jahn also works a full-time job at a retail store while managing her fashion career, personal goals, and mental health. As a disabled autistic woman, Jahn deals with a functional neurological disorder, a condition that stems from growing up in a dysfunctional household. Through the lack of her parents’ support, Jahn was a victim of abuse as a child during crucial years of her brain development, which made her brain unable to send and receive signals properly. Due to her disability, Jahn suffers from seizures that make the muscles of her body spasm and go numb. Before being diagnosed, Jahn was kicked out of her mother’s house in 2020. At that time Jahn was admitted into a community college to play basketball and while majoring in pre-law focused on African American studies. “I thought that was my way out,” Jahn said. However, Jahn started having seizures and could no longer play. “I think when I was finally in a safe place and my brain had time to process all the trauma that I had.” Following she decided to drop out of college and start investing in her modeling career. “My parents weren't happy about it, they thought I was giving up, but I knew it wasn’t good for me and I couldn’t waste more time with it.” Now, diagnosed Jahns takes her mental and physical health seriously, she goes to therapy weekly and she is supported by her friends and her cats Kyba and Buddha.
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