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Lorilee Craker Editor & Author

Ashely Reitz works with top agencies as a "curve model," offering her a platform to promote a healthy body image to young women. She has been an ambassador for a popular movement called Healthy Is the New Skinny and has been on the board for Miss SW Florida USA. Ashley has appeared in major magazines such as Seventeen and in national ad campaigns for Avon, Macy's, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Along with her "match" B.T., she was a fan favorite on FOX TV's reality show Coupled. Follow her at ashleyreitz.com.

Lorilee Craker is the author of thirteen books, including Anne of Green Gables, My Daughter, and Me; the CBA and ECPA bestseller My Journey to Heaven with Marvin J. Besteman; Money Secrets of the Amish; A Is for Atticus: Baby Names from Great Books, featured in People magazine; and the New York Timesbestseller Through the Storm with Lynne Spears. In 2012 she was nominated for an Audie Award for best audio book in the personal development category. Follow her at lorileecraker.com.