That’s why she founded Hipo Jewelry, a body-acceptance silverware brand. “Imagine spending decades at war with your thighs, then wearing them as art,” she writes on Instagram, pairing a portrait of her textured skin with a gleaming silver pendant. The words capture her work and her journey with incredible clarity.

On her social media, Ryvers speaks openly about the fact that she previously suffered from an eating disorder and spent a long time disliking her body’s appearance. “I spent too many years shrinking and hiding myself,” she writes, “so obsessed with my appearance that I forgot what it meant to actually live.”

It isn’t easy to embrace your cellulite in a culture that tells women that beauty means being smooth and skinny. Even less so now that social media filters set unrealistic beauty standards by airbrushing out every blemish.

Society’s disdain for cellulite comes from a long tradition of policing women’s bodies and making us feel bad for completely natural occurrences. Cellulite forms when fat cells press against the fibrous bands that tether skin to muscle. Some pull the skin downward while fat pushes upward, producing the pattern of tiny hills and valleys that we call cellulite.

Cis-women’s higher levels of estrogen lead them to be biologically predisposed to store more subcutaneous fat than cis-men. That’s why up to 90 percent of women will see dimpling at some point, whereas only around 2 percent of men have cellulite. The discrepancy has nothing to do with health but with the natural body fat ratios that the male and female bodies tend to have.

The numbers don’t lie; it’s unnatural for society to make us feel bad about the textures of our skin. I mean, would a tree be more beautiful if its bark were smooth? Are horses cooler than zebras? No.

Those so-called imperfections of our skin are what make it interesting, and by casting them in silver, Hipo Jewelry is helping us celebrate our cellulite, at long last.

“There are so many women struggling with the same man-made problems,” as Ryvers writes. “Too many women spending their lifetimes trying to be less textured, and trying to take up less space.” She concludes the thought with a clear mission: “I make jewelry all about that.”

Hipo Jewelry’s collection includes silver hoops, pendants, rings, and stud earrings in uneven forms, printed with the natural textures of skin. Each piece is handmade by Ryvers, who presses recycled silver into molds to create the unique patterns and shapes.

“I want to show you that your body textures were never flaws. They were always art,” she says. And she would love to be known for exactly that: “I want to be described as ‘that jeweler that makes jewelry out of skin textures.’”

Ryvers grew up in Vilnius, Lithuania. Art filled her childhood, although the pressure to select a more traditional profession redirected her toward academic research. “Feeling the pressure to pick a ‘serious’ career path made me abandon being creative,” she explains on her website. She worked in research for several years until burnout changed her direction. “It was a wake-up call to reconnect with my authentic self and to focus more on finding joy in what I choose to do.”

She started creating jewelry while also enrolling in a master’s degree in psychology, then a psychotherapy training program. While waiting to become a practicing psychotherapist, her jewelry became a form of healing in itself.

Alongside her cellulite-inspired pieces, Ryvers created the Vulnerability Shields collection, born from her psychotherapy training. The series explores the defense mechanisms we develop to avoid emotional risk—habits like perfectionism, numbing, hyper-independence, or oversharing—and how, over time, they can become barriers to being truly seen.

“With this collection, I want to invite you to think about the shields that you are currently carrying,” she writes. “I hope that you choose to let go of the heaviest shield you’re carrying and exchange it for a piece of jewelry.”

Ryvers’ background, both as an artist and a psychotherapist, is what makes Hipo jewelry so unique. It is jewelry that heals and helps you realize that the true adornment is your true self, your defense mechanisms, and your body, your idiosyncrasies, and the patterns on your thighs. It invites you to wear your story proudly, turning what was once a source of shame into beauty and art.