Though it's hard to see her as any­thing else but a woman of sub­stance, na­tion­al mid­field­er and cap­tain Karyn Solange Forbes is in­tent on help­ing many women, young and old, with life through her book 'Woman of Sub­stance.'

At her book launch at La Chateau Gar­dens, Mt Pleas­ant on Sat­ur­day evening be­fore a gath­er­ing of foot­ball col­leagues, fam­i­ly, friends and well-wish­ers, Forbes said her book will be the first of many as she com­mits to mak­ing eas­i­er the lives of many who may need it, through her God and sav­iour.

Her book was writ­ten be­cause of the chal­lenges she en­dured while grow­ing up. From a very ten­der age, her moth­er sold cig­a­rettes and pa­per to send her to school. And while it did not fit in­to a lifestyle they had carved out for them­selves as be­ing be­liev­ers in God, Forbes said she praised her moth­er nonethe­less, for pro­vid­ing her with, not what she want­ed but what she need­ed most of all.

Be­ing one of three sis­ters, the woman who is known af­fec­tion­ate­ly as 'Ba­by' in foot­ball, said she tried with­out suc­cess to make her moth­er proud at Com­mon En­trance, now SEA. But it was her tal­ent in foot­ball that came to her res­cue when she did not get the school she de­sired then.

"It was foot­ball that got me in­to Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary Com­pre­hen­sive. Now I am aim­ing for great­ness, I am claim­ing it," Forbes said. She left an in­deli­ble mark on the foot­ball stage at the Sec­ondary School Foot­ball League (SS­FL) and sought to fur­ther her stud­ies and foot­balling de­sires at West Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty in the Unit­ed States where she scored sev­en times in 42 ap­pear­ances.

In 2019 she rep­re­sent­ed Fjarðab/Höt­tur/Leiknir in Ice­land and net­ted twice in 12 match­es, but now at 30 years, she is a key piece of Ken­wyne Jones' puz­zle on the na­tion­al women's team that will be seek­ing FI­FA World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion in Feb­ru­ary.

As a de­vout Chris­t­ian, she be­lieves her de­sire to help oth­ers is a re­sult of a di­vine pur­pose.

Be­cause of this, she will­ing­ly dis­trib­uted free copies of her book to women who need­ed it at the launch, say­ing she is here to share and give. Forbes' qui­et life as a per­son out­side of foot­ball has been a mys­tery to many but fans and sup­port­ers will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to know a lot more for a price of $150.

Be­sides her rugged look on the pitch, Forbes is a ba­by striv­ing for wom­an­hood.