Comparison really is the thief of joy 😇 I used to be skinny… Like really skinny! To the point where size 6 clothes were too big for me… and I was genuinely pretty proud of it! Being on DWTS for the last 6 years and starting at 18 years old, you’ve probably seen my body change over the years. Growing up in the competitive dance world, my relationship with food and how I perceived my body weren’t always positive. I started competing at 7 and struggled to eat because of the nerves leading up to competitions which led to bad habits with food. At 9 years old I was moved to an older category because the only boy I could dance with in my area was 13 so I competed against older girls, which is where I first began to develop comparison issues. I would analyse my body next to the older girls who were clearly more developed and fitted their skimpier costumes a lot better than 9 year old me. At 14 I stopped competing and fell out of love with the sport and never thought I’d dance again. At 17 I took my PT exam with the hope of starting my own fitness business, but 3 months after passing I was offered my first role on a paid dancing gig to travel the world and I just couldn’t refuse. I fell back in love with dancing but began to slip back in to my old mindset of forcing my body to be as small as possible. Trying to be skinny is really tough. It’s tough every time you eat a biscuit then you have to run on the treadmill for 30 minutes to burn it off. It’s tough starving yourself for 3 days before a photo shoot then bingeing on anything you can find 24 hours after. It’s tough doing a 2 hour dance show and not eating after incase you look big in your costume the next day. This mindset is something I had inter-grained over years of body comparison. I continued this for years of my dance career, until lockdown hit. I’d finished season 4 of DWTS and decided to get my dumbbells out and start using my PT qualification again and set up @madhotfit. ⬇️ REST OF THE CAPTION IS PINNED BELOW ⬇️
Comparison really is the thief of joy 😇 I used to be skinny… Like really skinny! To the point where size 6 clothes were too big for me… and I was genuinely pretty proud of it! Being on DWTS for the last 6 years and starting at 18 years old, you’ve probably seen my body change over the years. Growing up in the competitive dance world, my relationship with food and how I perceived my body weren’t always positive. I started competing at 7 and struggled to eat because of the nerves leading up to competitions which led to bad habits with food. At 9 years old I was moved to an older category because the only boy I could dance with in my area was 13 so I competed against older girls, which is where I first began to develop comparison issues. I would analyse my body next to the older girls who were clearly more developed and fitted their skimpier costumes a lot better than 9 year old me. At 14 I stopped competing and fell out of love with the sport and never thought I’d dance again. At 17 I took my PT exam with the hope of starting my own fitness business, but 3 months after passing I was offered my first role on a paid dancing gig to travel the world and I just couldn’t refuse. I fell back in love with dancing but began to slip back in to my old mindset of forcing my body to be as small as possible. Trying to be skinny is really tough. It’s tough every time you eat a biscuit then you have to run on the treadmill for 30 minutes to burn it off. It’s tough starving yourself for 3 days before a photo shoot then bingeing on anything you can find 24 hours after. It’s tough doing a 2 hour dance show and not eating after incase you look big in your costume the next day. This mindset is something I had inter-grained over years of body comparison. I continued this for years of my dance career, until lockdown hit. I’d finished season 4 of DWTS and decided to get my dumbbells out and start using my PT qualification again and set up @madhotfit. ⬇️ REST OF THE CAPTION IS PINNED BELOW ⬇️
Comparison really is the thief of joy 😇 I used to be skinny… Like really skinny! To the point where size 6 clothes were too big for me… and I was genuinely pretty proud of it! Being on DWTS for the last 6 years and starting at 18 years old, you’ve probably seen my body change over the years. Growing up in the competitive dance world, my relationship with food and how I perceived my body weren’t always positive. I started competing at 7 and struggled to eat because of the nerves leading up to competitions which led to bad habits with food. At 9 years old I was moved to an older category because the only boy I could dance with in my area was 13 so I competed against older girls, which is where I first began to develop comparison issues. I would analyse my body next to the older girls who were clearly more developed and fitted their skimpier costumes a lot better than 9 year old me. At 14 I stopped competing and fell out of love with the sport and never thought I’d dance again. At 17 I took my PT exam with the hope of starting my own fitness business, but 3 months after passing I was offered my first role on a paid dancing gig to travel the world and I just couldn’t refuse. I fell back in love with dancing but began to slip back in to my old mindset of forcing my body to be as small as possible. Trying to be skinny is really tough. It’s tough every time you eat a biscuit then you have to run on the treadmill for 30 minutes to burn it off. It’s tough starving yourself for 3 days before a photo shoot then bingeing on anything you can find 24 hours after. It’s tough doing a 2 hour dance show and not eating after incase you look big in your costume the next day. This mindset is something I had inter-grained over years of body comparison. I continued this for years of my dance career, until lockdown hit. I’d finished season 4 of DWTS and decided to get my dumbbells out and start using my PT qualification again and set up @madhotfit. ⬇️ REST OF THE CAPTION IS PINNED BELOW ⬇️
Comparison really is the thief of joy 😇 I used to be skinny… Like really skinny! To the point where size 6 clothes were too big for me… and I was genuinely pretty proud of it! Being on DWTS for the last 6 years and starting at 18 years old, you’ve probably seen my body change over the years. Growing up in the competitive dance world, my relationship with food and how I perceived my body weren’t always positive. I started competing at 7 and struggled to eat because of the nerves leading up to competitions which led to bad habits with food. At 9 years old I was moved to an older category because the only boy I could dance with in my area was 13 so I competed against older girls, which is where I first began to develop comparison issues. I would analyse my body next to the older girls who were clearly more developed and fitted their skimpier costumes a lot better than 9 year old me. At 14 I stopped competing and fell out of love with the sport and never thought I’d dance again. At 17 I took my PT exam with the hope of starting my own fitness business, but 3 months after passing I was offered my first role on a paid dancing gig to travel the world and I just couldn’t refuse. I fell back in love with dancing but began to slip back in to my old mindset of forcing my body to be as small as possible. Trying to be skinny is really tough. It’s tough every time you eat a biscuit then you have to run on the treadmill for 30 minutes to burn it off. It’s tough starving yourself for 3 days before a photo shoot then bingeing on anything you can find 24 hours after. It’s tough doing a 2 hour dance show and not eating after incase you look big in your costume the next day. This mindset is something I had inter-grained over years of body comparison. I continued this for years of my dance career, until lockdown hit. I’d finished season 4 of DWTS and decided to get my dumbbells out and start using my PT qualification again and set up @madhotfit. ⬇️ REST OF THE CAPTION IS PINNED BELOW ⬇️
Comparison really is the thief of joy 😇 I used to be skinny… Like really skinny! To the point where size 6 clothes were too big for me… and I was genuinely pretty proud of it! Being on DWTS for the last 6 years and starting at 18 years old, you’ve probably seen my body change over the years. Growing up in the competitive dance world, my relationship with food and how I perceived my body weren’t always positive. I started competing at 7 and struggled to eat because of the nerves leading up to competitions which led to bad habits with food. At 9 years old I was moved to an older category because the only boy I could dance with in my area was 13 so I competed against older girls, which is where I first began to develop comparison issues. I would analyse my body next to the older girls who were clearly more developed and fitted their skimpier costumes a lot better than 9 year old me. At 14 I stopped competing and fell out of love with the sport and never thought I’d dance again. At 17 I took my PT exam with the hope of starting my own fitness business, but 3 months after passing I was offered my first role on a paid dancing gig to travel the world and I just couldn’t refuse. I fell back in love with dancing but began to slip back in to my old mindset of forcing my body to be as small as possible. Trying to be skinny is really tough. It’s tough every time you eat a biscuit then you have to run on the treadmill for 30 minutes to burn it off. It’s tough starving yourself for 3 days before a photo shoot then bingeing on anything you can find 24 hours after. It’s tough doing a 2 hour dance show and not eating after incase you look big in your costume the next day. This mindset is something I had inter-grained over years of body comparison. I continued this for years of my dance career, until lockdown hit. I’d finished season 4 of DWTS and decided to get my dumbbells out and start using my PT qualification again and set up @madhotfit. ⬇️ REST OF THE CAPTION IS PINNED BELOW ⬇️
Comparison really is the thief of joy 😇 I used to be skinny… Like really skinny! To the point where size 6 clothes were too big for me… and I was genuinely pretty proud of it! Being on DWTS for the last 6 years and starting at 18 years old, you’ve probably seen my body change over the years. Growing up in the competitive dance world, my relationship with food and how I perceived my body weren’t always positive. I started competing at 7 and struggled to eat because of the nerves leading up to competitions which led to bad habits with food. At 9 years old I was moved to an older category because the only boy I could dance with in my area was 13 so I competed against older girls, which is where I first began to develop comparison issues. I would analyse my body next to the older girls who were clearly more developed and fitted their skimpier costumes a lot better than 9 year old me. At 14 I stopped competing and fell out of love with the sport and never thought I’d dance again. At 17 I took my PT exam with the hope of starting my own fitness business, but 3 months after passing I was offered my first role on a paid dancing gig to travel the world and I just couldn’t refuse. I fell back in love with dancing but began to slip back in to my old mindset of forcing my body to be as small as possible. Trying to be skinny is really tough. It’s tough every time you eat a biscuit then you have to run on the treadmill for 30 minutes to burn it off. It’s tough starving yourself for 3 days before a photo shoot then bingeing on anything you can find 24 hours after. It’s tough doing a 2 hour dance show and not eating after incase you look big in your costume the next day. This mindset is something I had inter-grained over years of body comparison. I continued this for years of my dance career, until lockdown hit. I’d finished season 4 of DWTS and decided to get my dumbbells out and start using my PT qualification again and set up @madhotfit. ⬇️ REST OF THE CAPTION IS PINNED BELOW ⬇️
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
Saw this trend on insta and felt it was time to add a bit of reality into my page again … so let’s keep it real for a sec shall we 🤍💫🫶🏼
💫The best moment of my life so far 💫 Winning the glitterball with @carlmullan on Sunday night was honestly the most surreal experience I’ve had to date! Having danced basically my whole life and working so hard over the last 6 years of @dwtsirl … this moment meant the absolute world to me ♥️ Having been a finalist on 3 occasions, I genuinely considered that winning just might never be an option. But my dreams became a reality on Sunday. 7 year old me dancing in my local community centre would not believe 19 years later I’d be lifting the DWTS glitterball. Now to the main event of this caption… @carlmullan! Carl is genuinely the most hardworking individual I’ve ever come across. 5am – 9pm every single day, straight from his breakfast radio show to rehearse endlessly without ever complaining. We laughed… like so much, it was the most fun I’ve ever had on a season of DWTS. The dancing, rehearsals, VTs and Sundays in the studio were filled with constant enjoyment. Carl YOU deserve this win so much. You’ve proven to yourself how capable you are, so back yourself for ever now because WE all are backing YOU!! You’re an absolute inspiration to so many people young & old I don’t think you even know how inspiring you are.. and on top of it all you’re just a bloody lovely person!!! Thankyou to the show @dwtsirl for giving me the opportunity every year to come back and do what I love & Thankyou to all the producers, creatives, the celebs, fellow dancers & just every single person on the show! I’ve never felt love like Sunday night. My heart could burst ♥️
4 months down 💫🍸🫶🏼 Not 100% anxiety free 24/7 but definitely free of hangxiety and how that made me feel🍷 Can’t believe how much it has changed everything for me – I’ve never felt clearer on what I REALLY want in my life 💭
Derbyshire 3 Peak Challenge – COMPLETE ✅🗻🥾 📍Kinder Scout 📍Bleaklow 📍Black Hill 9 hours of walking, 43,000 steps and 3000 kcals later…. we completed the Derbyshire 3 highest peaks 💪🏼 Ready for a bath and a chippy now 😆💫🗻
Derbyshire 3 Peak Challenge – COMPLETE ✅🗻🥾 📍Kinder Scout 📍Bleaklow 📍Black Hill 9 hours of walking, 43,000 steps and 3000 kcals later…. we completed the Derbyshire 3 highest peaks 💪🏼 Ready for a bath and a chippy now 😆💫🗻
Tomorrow is May 🌸🌺🌷🌱🍃🌹 A new month full of hope, possibilities and optimism 💭 Some tips for May for you girls 🫶🏼 Hope it helps 💫
Tomorrow is May 🌸🌺🌷🌱🍃🌹 A new month full of hope, possibilities and optimism 💭 Some tips for May for you girls 🫶🏼 Hope it helps 💫
Tomorrow is May 🌸🌺🌷🌱🍃🌹 A new month full of hope, possibilities and optimism 💭 Some tips for May for you girls 🫶🏼 Hope it helps 💫
Tomorrow is May 🌸🌺🌷🌱🍃🌹 A new month full of hope, possibilities and optimism 💭 Some tips for May for you girls 🫶🏼 Hope it helps 💫