This incredible woman opened up about body positivity and anxiety, and we’re listening
We totally, totally heart Instagram. It’s so fun! Body positive Instagram accounts are for sure our favorite part. Fitness Instagrammer Jess, otherwise known as @plankingforpizza, is beloved in the body positivity community, and with good reason. Her body positive Instagram posts are always so amazing, and this one is no different. What we loved the most about this post is that it proved that anxiety can affect body positivity in weird ways. It’s just such a validating read. We couldn’t love Jess more!
She wrote,
"This is me. Unposed. Un-flexed. Honestly I was trying to get a good pic of my hair 😂😅 But weirdly, I kinda love this picture, because I've become fonder of my more candid and imperfect pictures. I've grown used to taking photos of myself over the past year; however, yesterday was different."
Why was it different? Because she finally felt content with her body.
"Yesterday was probably the first day I didn't criticize the things I want to change. I noticed them. I still very much saw cellulite and lower tummy pooch, but I didn't pick them or myself apart. It was simply pure acceptance and embracement."
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But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to practice body positivity.
"Yet body image itself is still something I really struggle with in a way that's really complicated to describe. It's like when I look in a mirror, I see the changes and I feel good about them! Yet when I can't see me and I'm out in public I feel trapped and stuck not only in my old body, but in a girl that once was."
She continued,
"I can have a very outgoing personality, yet I let my poor body issues self imprison the new me from emerging. I still struggle with "enoughness" as I'll never be small or thin or fit or pretty enough. Because in public I become nothing but pure anxiety. I can't talk to strangers easily or in front of my small work group because all I'm focused on is my rapid heartbeat being heard through my shaky voice."
Jess admitted that she’s been struggling with a combo of anxiety and body negativity.
"It's this anxiety of being seen for me, for who I am, that I think I still struggle with yet somehow it's still connected to my body image. I don't know how to isolate the two, but I'm working on it, and hope it won't always feel this way ✨"
We appreciate this post so much, and we’re sending her all the love!
