About Beautifully Loved

Our Story

It Started With a Simple Question: How Can We Help Them Feel Beautiful Again?

My name is Aysa Province, and 10 years ago, I started the Beautifully Loved Fashion Show after volunteering at Dell Children’s Medical Center.

While working with teen patients, I noticed something that stayed with me. They seemed depleted in so many ways—emotionally, mentally, and physically. They were going through so much, and I wanted to find a way to remind them of something that illness can sometimes make difficult to see:

How beautiful. How loved. How incredible they truly are.

So, I created a fashion show.

What started as one event grew into something much bigger. In the fourth year of the fashion show, I created Beautifully Loved, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the mental and emotional well-being of children and families navigating a hospital journey.

Our Focus Is Simple: Mental Health.

A childhood illness affects more than the body. It can affect confidence, self-worth, relationships, identity, and emotional well-being—for the child and the entire family.

We believe mental health is part of whole-body healing.

And sometimes, small things can make a big difference.

What Do We Do?

Beautifully Loved creates opportunities for children, teens, and parents to feel cared for, confident, seen, and supported through programs centered around wellness, beauty, and fashion.

Our programs include:

• Free beauty and self-care services for patients and parents
• Clothing and personal-care support
• Therapeutic and mindfulness activities
• Mentorship opportunities
• Hospital self-care carts and care kits
• Pamper Days and special events
• Our annual Beautifully Loved Fashion Show
• Mental health support and free therapy opportunities
• And so much more

Our goal is not to change what a family is going through. Our goal is to help make the journey a little lighter.

Who Do We Serve?

We work with children, teens, young adults, and parents connected to children’s hospitals and support facilities throughout Central Texas.

Because when a child is sick, the entire family is affected.

The patient is going through treatment. Parents are carrying fear, exhaustion, and uncertainty. Siblings are navigating changes of their own. Everyone is trying to be strong.

We believe everyone deserves support.

Why Our Work Matters

After years of working closely with families, we have seen how much of an emotional toll a serious diagnosis can take.

Families are focused on appointments, treatments, medications, procedures, hospital stays, and simply getting well. With limited time, energy, and resources, things like self-care, confidence, and mental health can understandably fall to the bottom of the list.

That is where we come in.

We create simple opportunities for families to pause, breathe, smile, reconnect with themselves, and remember that they are more than a diagnosis.

• A haircut.
• A new outfit.
• A moment of pampering.
• A therapeutic activity.
• A mentor who understands.
• A fashion show where they get to feel celebrated.
• A therapy session when they finally have the space to process what they’ve been through.

These moments may seem small, but small moments of care can create meaningful reminders of worth, strength, and hope.

Brave Is Beautiful.

Beautifully Loved is here for those who may be struggling to see themselves the way we see them.

We are here to remind them:

• BRAVE IS BEAUTIFUL.
• DIGNITY MATTERS DURING DIAGNOSIS.
• YOU ARE MORE THAN YOUR ILLNESS.
• YOU ARE PRETTY POWERFUL.
• YOU ARE STRONG.
• YOU ARE LOVED.

And most importantly...

You are Beautifully Loved.

Thank you for being part of this journey with us—for believing in our mission, supporting our programs, and seeing the possibilities for children and families who have been dealt a difficult hand.

We hope to continue creating moments that remind every child, teen, parent, and family that they are seen, valued, important, and worthy of care.

And if you ever need the reminder yourself, come back and read this:

Here’s to a beautiful year of feeling loved, seen, supported, and Beautifully Loved.

#BEAUTIFULLYLOVED

When we put ourselves "together" in hair, makeup, and a great outfit, we feel good and stand a little taller in that confidence. I truly believe that when we feel good, we look good, and that has amazing power. Beautifully Loved brings this belief to children fighting cancer. These kids often feel pressured to look like or be a certain way, and it can be so difficult. We want to help relieve that pressure and help these kids feel amazing. We also wanted to help the mothers fighting right alongside their babies, who have no energy or time to think about themselves. We give them the chance to feel amazing. We remind them that we care, and that they truly are beautiful and worthy of feeling good.

After the success of the fashion show, I decided that we could do more. As a community, we can make a difference because there are so many generous, kind, big-hearted people and businesses that want to give back. With the help of the Austin Community Foundation, we are able to bring love to families who are fighting pediatric cancer and childhood illnesses.