Full name: Scarlett Mae Adkins Matthews
Age: 38 years old
Status: Married to Nate Matthews
Children: Natalie Lynn Matthews; 13 yrs & Aiden James Matthews; 11 yrs
Class Year: Columbia University Class of 2019 (Literature major, Photography minor)
Occupation: Fashion Photographer; often works for Vogue Magazine. Has also done some modeling, herself.
Residence: New York City / Dillon, TX
Once the summer after graduation hit, Scarlett moved on with her life and started at Columbia. While she was never one to study too hard, she still found herself attending classes before anyone else. Using the spare time you're supposed to find yourself with, to thrust herself into the vast City of New York and dive into finding herself a career she thought might be worth while. Her ambitions had her doing everything in her power to prove her mother wrong like she had always hoped she would, and so that's what she set out to do. Make a name for herself, and prove everyone around her that she could be the best she possibly could - even with her sassy attitude.
Not once did she allow herself to put her art on the back burner, but after many years of photography study - she found love behind a lens as well as upon a blank canvas. Capturing moments she thought she'd never lose, even soon getting herself a job as an intern in her junior year within the most prestigious magazines the world knew too well. At first, she thought she'd be a journalist; taking her love for writing with her, which was what landed her the internship in the first place. Soon after, styling people became a hobby on the side, helping capture models in their best attire for test shoots. Little did she know, her skills and photos would land her a job as one of their head photographers, traveling the world to capture covers for magazines and moments of Fashion Week years later.
Years after her career had taken off she'd gotten back in touch with her best friend, Nate Matthews, somehow their relationship blossomed like it always had in the past. And as their parents had always planned, the two ended up married -- unsure of how it was that they'd ever gone without each other in the first place.
News of her first pregnancy at 25 took her off guard since she never dreamed of having a child, she had always been too afraid she'd turn into her own mother and leave the girl with emotional scars she could never take back. But once the little girl was in her arms, she vowed to cherish her with everything she had - but that didn't mean it turned her heart any less cold. Scarlett knew the girl would grow to be just as much of a spitfire as she had and she only hoped she'd have the same ambitions to become something great in the future. Her second child, Nolan, was much harder to conceive. But once Penelope was old enough, she wanted her to have someone to play with like she, herself, never had. The fact that he was a boy never came as a shock to her because she hoped for the sake of her sanity, another female would not invade her life only to give her more than a handful when they grew up.
Scarlett has kept in touch with a few people from her high school years including her best friend Kaya, confiding in her when she feels life has gotten rough. Aria of course, never fell out of touch with her for one second. Often visiting her and her family when she has down time back in Texas, forever proud of the strong and wonderful people they had both become.
