🙏 BODY ACCEPTANCE 🙏

When I was 18, I au paired in France for a family of 5 (I know, insane! And I was utterly awful at it I may add 🤣). On one particular day - that has clearly stayed with me all these years - the host mother told her 7 year-old daughter (7!) she had cellulite and needed to ‘slim down’. Even then at my young age, I felt in my gut that talking negatively about such a young body was so wrong!! I often think of that little girl right now and how desperately I tried to tell her how beautiful she was and didn’t need to change anything at all.

I am trying to break this cycle of negative talk and raise children who don’t obsess every minute about their body and looks, not comment on what is getting bigger or shrinking. This requires me to do the same for myself if I am to role model this behaviour.

So today, on my twins’ 8th birthday, we went to Box End Park - Water Sports & Aqua Park instead of worrying that my figure wasn’t slim enough/cellulite-free/felt ridiculous/didn’t look like other mums, I decided to remind myself that:

💩 Everyone has their own crap to deal with, it is not the ‘Grace Show’, no one is scrutinising your body as much as you!

👧 Focusing on my kids is far more important. They couldn’t give a shit if I had cellulite or am bigger than I was - they want to PLAY, end of, Mumma! Shift your attention on them, not yourself - it is liberating!

💣 You can’t control what others think (you actually can’t), so you may as well embrace life and all its activities and wonders it has on offer

Are you putting off an activity with your kid/s for fear of judgement of your figure when all you want to do is just live your life right now, in all its unperfectness?

#prettygoodisbetterthanperfect #raisinghappybodies #dontcoverup #normalisecellulite