Canadian influencer admits she struggles with insecurities 'every single day': 'I've gotten so comfy with the uncomfortable'

Sarah Nicole Landry is getting real about confidence. The Canadian influencer — known online as The Birds Papaya — shared an Instagram Reel on Tuesday explaining how she often feels insecure despite outwardly presenting herself as confident.

In the clip, the body positivity advocate showed herself getting ready for a workout. "A lot of people assume I'm just confident all the time, but I actually deal with insecurities (a lot) every single day," the on-screen text read.

The mom-of-four continued saying she picks herself apart and makes a "fuss" over her outfits, as she tries to do anything to get rid of feeling uncomfortable. "My best advice for living confidently? Walk away from the mirror and do it all anyway exactly as you are," she added. "Even if your knees are shaking, you're doing the dang thing. That's confidence, too. Sometimes, the action comes first and the feeling comes second."

In the caption of her post, Landry quipped that whenever someone tells her they wished they had her confidence, she thinks the same thing. "I wish I had the feeling first, but I don't. And that's OK. I've gotten so comfy with the uncomfortable because the alternative is holding myself back, feeling badly and letting it bleed into everything else or not doing the things I so badly want to.

"I make the choice, and I forge ahead. ... I'm on cloud nine and I started on cloud two."

The post received praise from followers who resonated with her message.

"To me, you're a goddess. ... Everything you do, how you show up, your thoughts and feelings, your glow and beauty, make my brain tingle and make me want to continue to push through limits that society and I have put on myself and other women," one person wrote.

"We were renovating recently and moved the full-length mirror out of the bedroom and I realized how freeing that was," someone shared.

"Love this message," fellow influencer Shelby Scott added.

In September, Landry opened up about going viral on social media after walking in a Miami Swim Week fashion show earlier this summer. After an Instagram Reel she posted of herself during the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit runway saw more than 70 million views and tens of thousands of comments, she reminded people she wasn't open to body shaming.

"Like, sorry, was I loud? On my own page, with the body I live in, showing up in my own life," the Guelph, Ont. native wrote as on-screen text in the clip. Landry's words play off of the sound clip she put over her video, which uses a quote singer Taylor Swift said in her documentary, "Miss Americana," about feeling trained to apologize because she's a woman.

"Sorry, did you want me to stay home and miss my own life?" Landry began in the caption of her post. "I went viral this summer. Seventy million views and 38,000+ comments weighing in on whether or not I should, I dunno...look like this??"

"They'll be OK. We will be too. Hopefully, because we're too busy saying 'yes' to things to hear the voices otherwise," she continued. "I hope that we keep being the kind ones. The ones that encourage others to step out, not the ones telling others to go hide. I hope we're loud with our lives. In whatever way that matters to you. What a summer. I'm proud of us."

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