🍪 Francesca Jansen got pregnant with twins barely a year into her marriage, tore her ACL right before a missionary program she'd planned her whole life around, and spent years believing she wasn't worth pursuing because of her weight. In this conversation with Liv Harrison, she gets radically honest about what it's like to be a plus-size young mom in the Catholic world and how she stopped letting the internet define her worth.

They also dig into the breastfeeding guilt no one talks about, why surrender isn't a one-time thing, and how Saint Maria Goretti taught her to forgive herself. This one's for you if you've ever scrolled past a friend's photo and felt like you didn't measure up.

💛 Guest Bio

Francesca Jansen is a Catholic content creator, handmade jewelry maker, and twin mom based in Chicago. She runs Ite Ad Joseph, an Etsy shop where she designs faith-inspired jewelry by hand after her boys go to sleep. Francesca is known online for her honest, unfiltered perspective on body image, young motherhood, and navigating faith as a plus-size woman in the Catholic space. She lives in the city with her husband Christian and their twin sons, Joseph and Benedict.

Follow Francesca:
https://www.instagram.com/francescajanssen_/

Chapters

00:00 Babies and Beautiful Chaos

00:40 Meet Fran: Twin Mom at 24

03:44 The Unsolicited Advice Industrial Complex

05:00 Newly Married, Immediately Outnumbered

06:43 "Trying to Find Myself Through Other People"

08:50 Falling Down Stairs Tearing ACL

10:55 First Dates and the Feast of St. Joseph

13:30 "Never Thought I Was Worth Pursuing"

15:00 Liv's 300-Pound Weight Loss

17:30 Friends Who Make a Living Being Beautiful

20:20 Pregnant, Plus-Size, Carrying Twins

23:00 "If I Just Hit This Number" Lie

25:50 Every Woman Sees Something She'd Change

27:20 Curvy Catholic Fashion Finds

30:30 Learning to Forgive Yourself

34:20 Twin Mom Survival Tips

35:50 Breastfeeding Guilt Nobody Talks About

38:10 Birth Plans, Epidurals, and Letting Go of "Superwoman"

40:40 Where Comparison Really Starts

41:10 Fran's Jewelry Shop

43:10 Prayer Requests and Closing