Grace Francesca Victory (born 29 August 1990) is a British YouTuber, writer, body positive activist and television presenter from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. [1]
Grace grew up on a council estate in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with her mother Dawn, younger sister Charlotte (known as Charleigh) and her father. Victory is of British-Caribbean heritage. [2]
Through childhood Victory witnessed domestic violence and drug abuse at home, and is currently no longer in contact with her father. [3]
As a child Victory trained at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe, and went on to star in The Bill , Family Affairs and four Harry Potter films. [3]
Victory began her YouTube channel age 21 in 2011. [4] Her channel started out as The Ugly Face of Beauty, with most of her content focussing on make-up and fashion. [5] As her content matured Victory diversified into more personal video and blog content including mental health, eating disorders and domestic violence. [5] As of January 2021 Grace has over 220,000 YouTube subscribers, more than 220,000 Instagram followers and over 90,000 Twitter followers.
In 2016 Victory presented BBC Three's Clean Eating's Dirty Secrets, a documentary about the wellness approach of clean eating. [6]
In March 2017 Victory collaborated with Nike, modelling for their first plus-size apparel campaign. [7] Later in 2017 Grace released her first book No Filter, featuring stories from her life including topics of domestic abuse and mental health. [8]
Since 2019 Victory has been a columnist for Happiful magazine. [9]
Victory's second book How To Calm It was published in January 2021 by #Merky Books, Stormzy's imprint within Penguin Random House. [10]
Grace began therapy in 2016 for mental health issues. [2]
Victory announced her pregnancy with partner Lee, in a photograph posted to her social media on 29 August 2020. [11]
In early December 2020 Victory developed mild symptoms of COVID-19, [1] but on 24 December 2020 her son was born prematurely due to COVID-19 complications and the following day she was placed in an induced coma. [11] On 8 March 2021 Grace made a post on Twitter stating "I'm awake" followed by another saying "Baby boy is thriving at home x."