It’s hard not to see a recurring theme of duality when you talk to Aliana Parisi. She’s driven, yet grounded. Idealistic, yet practical. She’s the owner of a successful body-sculpting studio, Corpo D'Oro Body Sculpting, yet she’s in law school to become an attorney.
Aliana is not your typical 25-year-old.
A career in law was always on the table for her, although she didn’t have a clear direction of where that would ultimately lead. She’d been a legal assistant at 17 and worked at that through her undergrad until she got her degree. But a lack of growth there told her that it was time to go back to school for her Master’s.
During grad school, she found a job body sculpting, which allowed her to set her own hours while pursuing her studies. After graduating, she went back to working at a law firm, as a legal assistant in elder care and family law to gain some practical workforce experience. But when she got accepted into law school, she left the law firm and went back into body sculpting.
And that is when things started crystallizing for her in interesting ways.
“Body sculpting seemed to be a natural fit for me. Women are their own worst enemy, and I gravitated to it because I was insecure in my own body like we all are,” Aliana admits.
And there’s that duality again - insecurity, paired with the innate confidence you expect from an attorney. But we all tend to gaze into flawed mirrors, seeing only the imperfections that are unseen by others.
“It’s hard,” she says. “No one wants to admit that they’re insecure in their own body. Everyone goes through their own insecurities. So I’m here to help them through that. They’re all beautiful but they see only flaws. So they come in quietly, privately to help them get to where they want to be. There’s nothing like seeing a bride beaming with pride about how good they feel about themselves - it really is a great feeling helping people see their own beauty.”
And that’s where the duality comes back into focus. By pursuing a legal career, Aliana is hurling herself straight into a profession that’s typically thought to be oozing with confidence.
“I just thought about why I’m looking to be an attorney - what field am I really trying to gear myself up for? I threw myself into family law but I never felt a connection there,” Aliana explains. “Family is everything to me, but I didn’t mesh with family law. I thought it might be elder care since I’d lived with my grandmother who had died young, but that wasn’t a fit either. It was like I was a puzzle piece trying to fit into the wrong puzzle. So I was continuing to try to figure out where I was headed in order to serve those who I connected with most.”
And that connection came back to her family experiences.
Her Italian heritage has helped to find her legal calling. She plans on specializing in immigration law, specifically in helping people of Italian descent to obtain their dual citizenship.
“I’m the product of immigrants. I went through the process of getting my dual citizenship in Italy. I have such respect for the culture and want to make sure that I can help people go about it the right way - and to lessen those insecurities as well, I suppose.”
By the time Aliana was born, her father was a naturalized citizen, so she was technically born to two American citizens. “There are curveballs all over immigration law, so knowing how to navigate the process is very important.
Working to help others has always been a big part of who Aliana is. Teaching CCD at church, running food drives, whatever she’s been doing, the goal to help others has always been front and center for this remarkably responsible, hard-working young woman. Her passion to help others rises above all else. It’s a special sparkle about her that lets you know that she’s a woman of purpose, someone who yearns to help set dreams free. No matter if they’re internal struggles or international ones, she’s destined to change lives.
There’s no duality there.
In fact, that’s the single thing that encapsulates everything she brings to this world - transforming insecurity into beauty.
Aliana Parisi is the owner of Corpo D’Oro Body Sculpting in Woodland Park. For more information on her services like Laser Lipo, Skin Tightening, Muscle Stimulation, and Vacuum or Wood Therapy, go to corpo-doro.com or call 973-293-4110. And if you’re hoping to get your dual Italian citizenship, give it a little time and you’ll know just who to call to help you with that.
It really is a great feeling helping people see their own beauty.
We all tend to gaze into flawed mirrors.