I have been feeling called to have this conversation with anybody who needs to hear this. In episode 77 of the Fierce as F*ck Podcast, I am diving into body image issues and how you can learn to own the body you’re in. I also want to talk more about the ripple effect that these body image issues have on the younger generation.
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In today’s episode, we are talking about body image issues and how it is time to own your body. So check out more of my insight on this below, and be sure to tune in to episode 77 of the Fierce as F*ck Podcast to hear even more details.
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In October of last year, I went to New York City to do a Mastermind. Something unplanned and beautiful ended up happening, we were given a photoshoot. We went to get this photoshoot, I knew it was coming weeks before the Mastermind. Instantly, I started freaking the f*ck out. I have never had photos professionally taken, I’m a thick woman. I have thighs, I am muscular. The idea of getting my photo done made me want to throw up. I figured there’s no way this photographer will get the right angles from my body.
I started f*cking panicking, trying to eat less, became more aware of the scale and my weight. I was becoming hyper-focused on details on my body, I spent hours on Youtube watching videos on how to pose for plus size women, and angles to use that are more photogenic. The night before the photoshoot, I’m in my hotel and I had an outfit planned out, but I felt gross in it. I was drinking and eating garbage the night before, I kept thinking about how bloated I’d be showing up to the photoshoot. I just got sick and tired of feeling this way.
I know a lot of you see me and see me owning every curve, inch, flaw, and assume that I don’t battle with body image issues. Keep in mind, this new level of confidence in owning how I look did not naturally come to me overnight. I still have days where I wake up feeling bloated or gross. There are still days I wake up and wonder how I’d look if I lost ten pounds. There is a difference though between now and then. I grew up my entire life hating my body, I was always a bigger girl. I always had very muscular features, I had calves double the size of all the boys in my classes, I carried weight around my stomach. Growing up, especially in today’s society I was, in a way, made to hate my body. I remember some of the first times my grandmother would tell me I put on weight after my parent’s divorce, that’s when I started noticing it more.
I was about 120 pounds when I was 12 years old, at the time my mom was dropping a ton of weight and we’d be the same size in clothes. I got teased a lot for being fat and loud. Naturally, this grew the hate for my body. Society tells us we’re not good enough or thin enough, so we treat ourselves like garbage. At the early age of 13, I began stealing diet pills from the local drug store. I ended up losing weight and being noticed for it. I continued on the diet pills and being on this abusive cycle. This led to an unhealthy relationship with my body, and it prevented me from showing up in a lot of aspects of my life.
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You don’t need to f*cking love your body, and this is going against every self-love body positivity person in the entire world, they can come at me with pitchforks. The fact is, there will be women in this world who will never love their body and battle body image issues. I’m not going to shame them for it, you need to do whatever the f*ck you need to do. It’s your life and your choice. There comes a time when you have to recognize it’s no longer about the relationship between you and your body. It’s how little girls, especially your own, are seeing you perceive your body. That’s what it’s about. It’s about how every time your daughter hears you say a piece of cake is bad and you shouldn’t eat it because you gain weight.
It’s about how every time a woman who is 120 pounds is standing in front of the mirror shaming her body in front of her daughter who is the same weight. It’s no longer about you at a certain point. You can get pissed at your body and get upset wishing it could improve, you don’t have to love your body. It’s your right but be better for them, be better for the younger generations because they are watching us. These younger generations absorb everything, and if you are the type of person constantly sh*tting on your body in front of a little girl, you are causing her to have a negative relationship with her body.
If you are the person who is sh*tting on your body all the time and battling these body image issues, first off, you are f*cking beautiful. You are beautiful whether you are too thin, too fat, somewhere in the middle. You are beautiful no matter f*cking what. You are beautiful because beauty is within, I know that’s cliche but I’ve seen a lot of beautiful people outside be ugly within. Everything we do is leaving a ripple effect on the generation behind us. You may not love your body but allow your daughter to love hers.
I love you guys so much and thank you for being here with me. Be sure to tune in to episode 77 of the Fierce as F*ck Podcast for even more motivation and inspiration to show up as your fiercest, most authentic self!
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She is a Women’s Empowerment and Business Coach who teaches women to step out of their fear and into 6 figure Sales . She teaches women how to grow their business organically without the use of sales funnels, websites, and email marketing. She began her Coaching Business is Jan 2019 and created a six figure business in three months. She now helps teach women to do the same!
