![]() A lot of the time we can take the spiral of questions down to: Why do I care about this? Why do I care about being a size X for summer? Why does this bother me on social media? It’s always about other people. Because at the end of the day, we wouldn’t really care about most things if it wasn’t about someone else’s opinion of us. It’s me practising and meditating on the belief that, no matter what anyone says about me – good or bad – nothing can affect my worth. I do, I have this thing called “worthy work” that really resets me on those days. Do you have mantras you turn to when you’re feeling less than confident? This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. How free we could really feel if we chose not to give that ideal all the power. Our generation has been given such a gift, because our mothers and grandmothers didn’t have that awareness of how body shaming affects us on a physical and mental level. Physically feeling the stress in our bodies when we think about summer coming up is not good, so catch yourself in the cycle and have these conversations on social media. For generations we lived unconsciously in these traps and we were not aware of how, psychologically, it affected us and made our bodies unwell. ![]() What’s helped me is being aware that I’m falling into that trap – the illusion isn’t real. As women… all it takes is something we read and we’re under its spell again. I think understanding societal constructs and pressures and how it’s affected us as a society is helpful. deconstructing how society has put all these rules on us, like that we always need to look good, but especially in the summertime – that no one’s rolls can be hanging out. We can’t avoid coming across the seasonal language, it’s been around forever. What would you say to women worrying about their “summer body” right now?Įvery summer it’s inevitable. ![]() Of course, we work on ourselves day to day to get that feeling internally, but the external forces also dramatically affect us – they dramatically affect me still. It helps with our sense of confidence in the world, because we think that if that person is accepted and celebrated, then I must be okay too. On a psychological level, seeing someone that looks like you in advertisements on billboards and magazines – the media that you consume – there is a sense of belonging and connection. Obviously as a human race, it would be awesome if we were stronger to know in ourselves that we are good enough on our own, but we’re human and we are affected by the media and what we see and take in on a daily basis. So for me to step into these roles at the age I am feels like such a beautiful, healing thing. There is a lot of pain and shame around our bodies for a lot of women, and the society we grew up in has inflicted a lot of that. I now embody a confident woman who loves herself. The universe is giving me opportunities, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence. Being the first Asian curve model on the cover of Vogue! There are so many places in history that I’m being welcome into and celebrated. I’m at this way healthier place in my life and I’m able to champion the things that once hindered me. ![]() How does it feel to be featured in magazines like Vogue and Sports Illustrated ? I want to fight for all people to be represented, because I know that not seeing your body type can make you feel really isolated. And I think that’s the category I started out under. But I also think that mid-size people really deserve representation. There are definitely people who are misrepresented or underrepresented still. ![]()
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