Leeann Tweeden Instagram – This is from my very first shoot with FHM magazine. We were on location in a house in Malibu. I remember feeling self conscious about my body (I was not as ‘skinny’ as a lot of my contemporaries)…but everyone on this set were really supportive.
I wish I could go back and smack this younger version of me and tell her she was just fine as she was! I spent a lot of my modeling career being told I needed to lose weight or being compared to girls that were thinner than I was.
I look at this picture now and think, why was I so hard on myself?! But that is what the industry makes you feel. You’re bombarded with magazine images and billboards and are constantly told what ‘standards’ you should be living up to. And if not, you’re reminded by the people in the business…
I was lucky enough that I did work a lot, and eventually the world came to love women and their more voluptuous bodies like J.Lo and Beyoncé. That acceptance was a turning point…
Beauty comes in all forms. We have to remind ourselves to love who we are. It’s exhausting spending your whole life trying to be what you’re not.
Beauty is everywhere and within everyone. ✨ | Posted on 04/Feb/2023 23:44:50
