Healthy AND beautiful at EVERY size

Ashley Graham is one of my biggest role models and she always has been. She is a plus size supermodel and owns it. She once said “I think that you can be healthy at any size and my goal is to help and educate women on that, it doesn’t matter if you’re a size 2 or 22, as long as you’re taking care of your body, working out and telling yourself ‘I love you’ instead of taking in the negativity of beauty standards”.

I love this quote. Being ‘healthy’ doesn’t mean you need to be some kind of athlete; it is just simply taking care of your body and working out and pushing it to its limits. On the subject of beauty standards, I think what she says is something we can all relate to i.e ‘looking like a Kardashian or Kylie Jenner’ when actually it isn’t real and it’s certainly nowhere near a standard. I think society is slowly coming to terms with this and changing the beauty standard, however, society and social media can change this all they want, but if YOU aren’t ready to, then you will be stuck in that negative mind set.

Taking time every day to tell yourself that YOU are beautiful, getting those workouts done, drinking water and eating nutritionally are all actions that will help you realise YOUR beauty standard.