This fitness vlogger has an important message for us about self love
With Instagram having been recently revealed as one of the main culprits in damaging our self esteem, one vlogger’s recent message about loving your body couldn’t have come at a better time.
Fitness vlogger Kelly U is also an eating disorder survivor, and knows that the journey to loving your body is not an easy one – so she openly talks about it on Instagram.
And she recently shared one photo with a particularly important message.
A seemingly un-shopped photo of herself in plain black underwear, she wrote in the caption beneath that while her “skin isn’t perfectly smooth” and “my butt doesn’t stand up by itself”, her “natural body in its natural state deserves recognition”.
She said:
“My skin isn’t perfectly smooth. I don’t have a flat stomach. My butt doesn’t stand up by itself.
“I’ve got lines, fat, skin – OH A NORMAL HUMAN BODY!
“My natural body in its natural state deserves recognition, it deserves validation.
“It so deserves to be loved and cherished just as much as my body when it’s being manipulated, flexed or angled to look ‘better’.
“I refuse to think I look better in certain lighting, sucking in, flexing, any of that. I truly love my body just as much when it’s like this. Because this is my BODY.”
She then goes on to explain that it’s her own privilege to love her own body, and that everyone’s body is beautiful – resting or flexed, big or small.
“You deserve to be comfortable in your own skin. Society and social media is always going to try and skew your perceptions and point of view in the wrong direction.
“It’s our duty to continuously remind ourselves that we are beautiful, wonderful and worthy. Because we really are.”
She finishes off her post writing: “Self love isn’t easy, it takes effort. But it’s work that pays off, and it becomes more effortless every single day. I love you, my warriors. And your body is B-E-A-UUUUUTIFUL.”
Hear, hear.
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