Thinking about these two Beauties today.❤️ The kindest, most thoughtful, bright, empathetic, funny and talented friends I could ever wish for. I’m so grateful to have them in my Life. Happy @tessamossey and @albertorosende Appreciation Day!❤️🎉❤️ @shadowhunterstv #shadowhunters #paris #friendship #buddies #simonlewis #heidimckenzie #maryselightwood #love #albertorosende #tessamossey
TITANS SEASON 4!!!!🎉🎉🎉 I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally be able to share with you all what I spent my Spring doing…Introducing GINA! Joining the @dctitans cast this Season truly was the stuff that childhood dreams are made of. The sets, the stunts, the costumes the incredible writing and performances! And let’s not forget, working everyday with the incomparable and iconic Franka Potente.🔥Just so much fun and so epically exciting. Enjoy my friends! More pics and #BTS to come!❤️🎉 #titans #titansseason4 #titanshbomax #hbomax @hbomax #mothermayhem @therealjosephmorgan @joshua_orpin @jaylycurgo @ryankpotter @curdog @teagancroft @mameanna_diop @brentonthwaites #frankapotente @actradiversityto @actratoronto @actranational #representation #representationmatters @borismojsovski
TITANS SEASON 4!!!!🎉🎉🎉 I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally be able to share with you all what I spent my Spring doing…Introducing GINA! Joining the @dctitans cast this Season truly was the stuff that childhood dreams are made of. The sets, the stunts, the costumes the incredible writing and performances! And let’s not forget, working everyday with the incomparable and iconic Franka Potente.🔥Just so much fun and so epically exciting. Enjoy my friends! More pics and #BTS to come!❤️🎉 #titans #titansseason4 #titanshbomax #hbomax @hbomax #mothermayhem @therealjosephmorgan @joshua_orpin @jaylycurgo @ryankpotter @curdog @teagancroft @mameanna_diop @brentonthwaites #frankapotente @actradiversityto @actratoronto @actranational #representation #representationmatters @borismojsovski
I am so glad you were born. Your friendship on this crazy adventure is a gift. Happy Birthday Lovely!🎉❤️ @domsherwood #domsherwood #dominicsherwood @shadowhunterstv #shadowhunters #friendship #thos4
Okay Friends. It’s time for an update and some Truth Time. I know a lot of you have noticed that I haven’t been present on social media lately. I needed to take a break, clear my head, ask some important questions and find some quiet. But now I’ve had some time to be with myself and I’m ready to share because I think a lot of you can relate to what I’ve been feeling. Back in September I got COVID from someone not masked properly on set. It was my first time with the virus. I was positive and in bed sick for two weeks, then I spent another 4-6 weeks battling fatigue, malaise and recurring symptoms. My Doctors told me to practice “radical rest” and for the first time in many years it was a couple of months where I couldn’t just keep going. I could’t really work, exercise or interact. And suddenly, waves of sadness, anxiety and fear came washing over me. Like many of you, I realized I’ve spent the last three years of COVID coping, living on adrenalin, anxiety and trying to outrun the fear and pain of what we’ve all been through with this pandemic. And I’m one of the lucky ones who was able to stay safe and support my family while so many lost so much. Jobs, safety and in the worst cases life. But in the day to day so many of us lost things that aren’t as catastrophic but that leave lasting holes. Loss of goals, career paths, planned milestones, celebrations and many different kinds of lost relationships. And we just had to keep going. I have found these past few months that my mind and body were surrendering to the depression and sadness in a way I couldn’t when survival mode was paramount. And that’s okay. We have to feel these things and move through them so we can heal. I acknowledge my privilege and blessings and also acknowledge my sadness and loss. One of my favourite quotes of late is “There’s no way out but through.” It’s been a challenging time but now I’m back, feeling good and with so much more to say in the weeks to come. Missed you all and sending Love!❤️ @shadowhunterstv #shadowhunters #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness @theboystv @dctitans #theboys #covidmentalhealth #healing
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#measureyourpowernotyourdresssize ❤️Finding physical strength and Power through exercise was the initial motivation for my # but the reality is that true Power has many elements: Mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, the list goes on. I saw an eating disorder councillor for the first time right before my battle with COVID last Summer. Both experiences made me want to re-evaluate my relationship with #exercise and my Body. To check in and make sure that exercise was still a positive, healthy outlet for me, that it hadn’t become an obsession or another way to try and change my Body to meet unrealistic standards of beauty. Much like the toxic “wellness” industry, exercise is often used to promote the idea that, as women, we aren’t enough the way we are. That we need to change ourselves, work harder and spend more money to have value. It’s all part of the machine. So I took a few months to stop all workouts. I gave myself permission to stop, to know that my body might change, that I may “lose ground” with the progress I’ve made physically or gain weight. And I’ll be honest, the fear that I felt about those things was concerning and proved that I’ve still got a long way to go with my #selfesteem and eating disorder journey. But I also discovered that exercise really is about more than body image for me. I really missed my workouts. They help my mental health, physical health, make me feel empowered and offer opportunities for community. It’s a balance and it’s NOT healthy for everyone. So now I am back to my old fitness routines but with a consciousness that I didn’t have before. Listening to my body and emotions more. Putting less pressure on myself and resting when I need to rest. This F%*ked up culture has been hurting my relationship with my Body since I was a child but that doesn’t mean I don’t have the Power and Strength to change that with time. It’s not our fault that we ended up with these negative feelings about what we see in the mirror but we owe it to ourselves not to let this pain define us forever. And that my Loved ones is where the Real Power is.❤️ @shadowhunterstv #shadowhunters #bodyimage #womenwholift #womenempowerment #nofilter #fitness #cbcq
Thank you everyone for all of your Beautiful messages and Love after my last post. The best thing about social media is the platform it has the possibility to be for community and support. I’m so grateful to all of you! I wanted share that I’v have the great privilege of being able to to take myself on a vacation to my favourite environment…anywhere the Sun and Ocean are! I can feel the healing Vitamin D and Salt Water working their Magic! Sending Love to all from the Beach!🌞❤️ ❤️ #measureyourpowernotyourdresssize 🎉🌞❤️ #bodypositivity #bodypositive #bodypositivemovement #shadowhunters @shadowhunterstv @coronercbc @nbcnurses #summer #mamamalec #malecsmama @theboystv #theboys @dctitans #dctitans #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness @theboystv @dctitans #theboys #covidmentalhealth #healing
#measureyourpowernotyourdresssize ❤️💪🏽My journey with body image and clothing was forever changed when I shopped in Latin America for the first time. Our journeys with body image also impact our relationship with clothing. When I was growing up, Western Culture wasn’t making clothes that fit diverse body types. The designs all followed a very straight lined, ectomorphic body type that no amount of manipulation or dieting could ever make me fit. I HATED CLOTHES because they highlighted the things about me that weren’t “good enough”. For many years a lot of my “personal style” was actually just me internalizing negative comments about my body and dressing to hide or deemphasize the things about my body that I thought were bad. “Don’t wear pants because your legs are too big” “Don’t wear fitted skirts because your ass is too wide”. The list goes on and on. Trying on clothes was humiliating because they never looked “right”. Then I went to Buenos Aires with a little bit of money in my pocket for the first time and discovered that…EVERYTHING FIT ME and most of it looked GREAT! Not because my Body had changed but because I was in a culture that respects and designs for my body type. The problem was never my Body, it was my engagement in a culture that excludes many of us from its narrow image of Beauty. It was so liberating and made me think differently about clothes and how I want to walk through the world. I stopped trying to wear clothes intended for Women who look nothing like me. I started choosing clothes that worked with ME instead of trying to manipulate myself into them. I’ve got a long way to go but I know I’m on the right path. CLOTHES ARE SUPPOSED TO FIT US, not the other way around. Your Body is Beautiful the way it is so put down the magazines and Instagram fashion pages and celebrate with clothes that make you feel Confident and Beautiful. You deserve it.❤️ #bodypositivity #bodypositive #bodydiversity #bodypositivemovement #womenempoweringwomen #shadowhunters @shadowhunterstv #womensupportingwomen #eatingdisorderrecovery @i_weigh #fashion #effyourbeautystandards #honormycurves #celebratemysize #daretowear #goldenconfidence #fashiontruth #nomakeup
#MeasureYourPowerNotYourDressSize Many Women like me learned destructive habits around manipulating our bodies when we were very young. I went on my first diet when I was 8 years old and have struggled with disordered eating and body image ever since. Now, at 41, I still battle my eating disorder and the affects of diet culture every day. But I also know better now, I know I can’t measure my value by the standards of a fucked up culture and I genuinely Love myself for the first time in my Life. But change is hard and bad habits can come back if we’re not careful. In my industry, Red Carpet events are particularly difficult. So many public figures starve themselves, take speed and other diet drugs, get plastic surgery and do whatever they have to do to fit into their red carpet dresses. To become some ideal they have in their heads no matter how much it affects their physical and mental health. I KNOW it’s wrong but recently, when I found out I had a red carpet event coming up, my first thought was still “I have 4 weeks to crash diet and lose as much weight as I can”. I had a gown that I wanted to wear but it was one from many years ago. When I had less muscle and was much younger. My first thought was to lose weight fast to fit into it by April 14th. Then I remembered one of key things I heard along my journey with body positivity “We’re not supposed to fit into clothes, clothes are supposed to fit us”. So I stopped myself. I put that idea away and retired that gown forever. It’s not who I am anymore and that’s a good thing. I went out and I tried on a bunch of dresses that fit ME and make me feel Beautiful. Beautiful the way I am. Not the way I imagine other people want me to be. It’s a small step, but there’s power in changing old habits and loving who we really are right now in this moment. I deserve that. And so do you.❤️ #bodypositivity #bodypositive #bodypositivemovement #womenempoweringwomen #shadowhunters @shadowhunterstv #fitness #fitnessmotivation #womenwholift #womensupportingwomen #eatingdisorderrecovery #womenshealth
@i_weigh @jameelajamil @residentalien @canadianscreenacademy #canadianscreenawards @actradiversityto @actratoronto
Oh What A Night!🍾🎬🥂 @TheCdnAcademy #CdnScreenAwards @actranational @actratoronto @actradiversityto #pillowtalk @cravecanada #cravetv @prodkotv #glam #workingmom #womeninfilm #womeninfilmandtv #redcarpet (Hair and Makeup by @jenfishermakeup )
Today was a hard day personally for me. Really hard (in an admittedly privileged-Western-Personal-Problems kind of way, but none the less.) I shed a lot of tears, I fought a lot of demons and somehow, just reminding myself that my body is healthy and able to run and jump and lift heavy shit was really helpful. Some days all you need to do is just get through it and remember all the ways that you are lucky. Today is one of those days. I thank my Friends, my Family and this 60 pound kettle bell for their support.❤️And I’m sending all that Love and Support to all of you who need it today.❤️ @shadowhunterstv #shadowhunters #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness @theboystv #theboys #healing @shadowhunterstv #womenwholift #strength #measureyourpowernotyourdresssize @residentalien #momlife #youwillgetthroughthis
One of my Favourite TV moments of my WHOLE CAREER so far!🎉 Witness the birth of #mothermayhem Folks! Doing this scene with #frankepotente harnessed on a four-story ladder in a truly amazing studio set was like something out of a dream from my Childhood! Doing @dctitans really was what I imagined being an Actor would be like when I was a kid. The sheer EPIC Imagination, Creativity, Drama and Wildly elaborate environments. Just SO EXCITING! I Loved playing Gina with all my heart.❤️(Even if she made some VERY bad choices as seen in the GIF above…🤣❤️🤣) Special shoutout to my AMAZING stunt double @enzatzman 🎉 I’ve had the pleasure of her being my MUCH more flexible and exciting self on more than one job and I’m so grateful for her work and her friendship! (Especially when I needed to navigate how to get the harness to work around my lady parts…🤣🤣🤣 That’s the Acting Sh*# no one talks about!😂🤷🏻♀️) You’re the best #stuntdouble Thank you Nova!❤️ If you haven’t yet, check out Season 4 of #dctitans RIGHT NOW!❤️🎉 #titans #titansseason4 #titanshbomax #hbomax @hbomax #mothermayhem @therealjosephmorgan @joshua_orpin @jaylycurgo @ryankpotter @curdog @teagancroft @mameanna_diop @brentonthwaites #frankapotente @actradiversityto @actratoronto @actranational #representation #representationmatters @borismojsovski #stuntwomen
So excited to be able to share! The #MySpyMovie Sequel is COMING!!! I had such an AMAZING time making @myspymovie with this Amazing team and I’m over the moon to be returning to these characters. Can’t wait for you to see what FBI Agent Christina is up to now. More info and BTS to come!❤️🎉 🎉 @davebautista @kenjeong @k.schaal @chloecolemanact @annafaris @mrcraigrobinson @flula @noahdanby #davebautista #kenjeong #annafaris #craigrobinson #actioncomedy @primevideo #primevideo
So excited to be able to share! The #MySpyMovie Sequel is COMING!!! I had such an AMAZING time making @myspymovie with this Amazing team and I’m over the moon to be returning to these characters. Can’t wait for you to see what FBI Agent Christina is up to now. More info and BTS to come!❤️🎉 🎉 @davebautista @kenjeong @k.schaal @chloecolemanact @annafaris @mrcraigrobinson @flula @noahdanby #davebautista #kenjeong #annafaris #craigrobinson #actioncomedy @primevideo #primevideo
Happy Holidays From our Dino Dana Family to yours!❤️🎉❤️ #dinodana #dinodanathemovie @sinkingshipent #family #familyholiday (Repost: @thedinodana ) @actradiversityto #representation #representationmatters #blendedfamily
Today is the last day to bid on exceptional work by incredible Ukrainian Artists to raise money to help the Ukraine and it’s people! Please go to www.fightwithart.com to register and bid! I did and I hope you will too!❤️#fightwithart
To be on any list that includes Alan Tudyk, Linda Hamilton, George Takei, Terry O’Quinn, Nathan Fillion and Enver Gjokaj is an incredible thing. All artists I deeply admire, some of whom I’ve been watching since I was a kid dreaming of being an Actor myself one day. It’s a very trippy thing to be counted among your idols. Something I didn’t let myself dream about for a lot of years. And the thing is, I didn’t let myself dream about it because when I was growing up there were so few women on TV who looked like me. So few Women of Colour, so few bi-racial Women, Women of diverse body types or Women who were allowed to work past 30. It’s hard to dream about things you’ve never seen. Which is why Representation and Bravery matter. It was my first day on the set of @residentalien that I knew I had lucked out big time. A show that proves Bravery and Trust and Belief in the idea that Honesty and Diversity and Artistry are not “gambles” but sure fire ways to tell great stories at the highest levels. From my initial negotiations to my first day on set and every day that followed the Executives and Lead Cast made me feel welcome, appreciated and part of a team. They have showed me true allyship and respect at every step and they have raised the bar for how I want to work and who I want to work with moving forward. Also, the show is just so F$&kin’ Smart and Funny! So I’m going to take a minute today to tell my younger self that she hung in for a reason. That the Future is Bright.❤️(Article From: @syfywire see link below) #representationmatters #representation #womeninfilm #womeninframe @actradiversityto @actradiversityto @actranational #diversity #diversitymatters @alantudyk #lindahamilton @georgehtakei @nathanfillion @therealenver #terryoquinn @syfy @peacocktv #chrissheridan @alantudyk @saratomko19 @elizabethbowensometimes @syfy #syfy #coreyreynolds @alicewetterlund #levifiehler @jennalamiaisme #lindahamilton @meredithgarretson #robertduncanmcneill #sarahpodemski #bipocactors #bechdeltest #bodydiversity #womeninfilmandtv @shootgoodfilms @kabirakhtar https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-all-the-sci-fi-veterans-who-appear-in-the-syfy-series?amp
I couldn’t be prouder of this nomination!🎉Shooting season 1 of #PillowTalk for @cravecanada was a journey unlike any other I’ve had in my career thus far. In the height of COVID @prodkotv hired 4 real couples and one set of roommates to play ENTIRELY FICTIONAL couples in a series about the insanity and hilarity that happens in relationships behind closed doors. We shot 16-20 pages a day (3 times the amount many of us are used to) with our real partners, on one set each, for 4 days per couple and came out alive and with 10 episodes of REALLY funny television. Due to COVID restrictions and scheduling most of us nominated together for this ensemble work have never actually met. But on April 14th we will all sit together for the first time at the #canadianscreenawards to celebrate our nomination for “Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Sketch Comedy”. Congratulations my Friends! It’s an honour to see my name with all of yours!❤️ @paolo_santalucia #gregoryprest @adamdimarco @sydneyscotia @snapshotrobinson @kwasi_thomas #andrewwheeler @sharoncrandall @vanessa_fox_official @TheCdnAcademy #CdnScreenAwards @actranational @actratoronto @actradiversityto
I couldn’t be prouder of this nomination!🎉Shooting season 1 of #PillowTalk for @cravecanada was a journey unlike any other I’ve had in my career thus far. In the height of COVID @prodkotv hired 4 real couples and one set of roommates to play ENTIRELY FICTIONAL couples in a series about the insanity and hilarity that happens in relationships behind closed doors. We shot 16-20 pages a day (3 times the amount many of us are used to) with our real partners, on one set each, for 4 days per couple and came out alive and with 10 episodes of REALLY funny television. Due to COVID restrictions and scheduling most of us nominated together for this ensemble work have never actually met. But on April 14th we will all sit together for the first time at the #canadianscreenawards to celebrate our nomination for “Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Sketch Comedy”. Congratulations my Friends! It’s an honour to see my name with all of yours!❤️ @paolo_santalucia #gregoryprest @adamdimarco @sydneyscotia @snapshotrobinson @kwasi_thomas #andrewwheeler @sharoncrandall @vanessa_fox_official @TheCdnAcademy #CdnScreenAwards @actranational @actratoronto @actradiversityto
You all know that I’m generally not afraid of sharing…🤣But Emma asked some really important and fundamental questions in this interview that made me dig deep into who I am at this point in my life. How have I changed? How have I healed old wounds? How have I found Joy and Confidence? Who do I want to be in the new phase of my life that is stretched in front of me? Please give a listen and share your experiences and thoughts with me. There is so much to be gained by learning from each others experiences.❤️ #thebookoffirstspodcast @tindallpodcasts @shadowhunterstv #shadowhunters #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #healing @shadowhunterstv #measureyourpowernotyourdresssize
Twin🔥’s indeed!!! Big Black and Medium Brown on the Town!🔥 Catch up with my new Favourite show @residentalien ❤️! It’s got all the Humour, Heart, Artistry and all the Beautiful Diversity I’ve been waiting for. Love this show so much and so proud to play Det. Lena Torres!❤️ @syfy @peacocktv #chrissheridan @alantudyk @saratomko19 @elizabethbowensometimes @syfy #syfy #coreyreynolds @alicewetterlund #levifiehler @jennalamiaisme #lindahamilton @meredithgarretson @judahprehn #robertduncanmcneill @kabirakhtar @shootgoodfilms #sarahpodemski #representation #representationmatters #bipoc #bipocactors #feminism #bechdeltest #bodydiversity #womeninfilm #womeninfilmandtv @shootgoodfilms @kabirakhtar (Repost from @residentalien 🔥)
Come join us on Friday! I’m so proud to be a part of this incredible panel of Women talking about our work and the #BIPOC Film/TV climate in our culture. See you there!🎉❤️ @actratoronto @actradiversityto @actranational #actra #bipocwomen #womeninfilm #womeninfilmandtv #diversity #opportunity
