Interviewing A Self love influencer Ellie Sweet @xelliesweetx
In your opinion how would you say social media effects our perception with our own body image? “I think I depends on the person whether social media can effect our image because I mean it depends who you choose to follow, like I used to follow loads of people that were fake and only put their good sides up but now everyone I follow is either someone I know or people are good for me to see. So I guess it depends who you follow but I think if we didn’t have social media people would have a lot less body image problems.”
What do you do when you’re not feeling so confident or high esteem? “I remind myself what’s what. I remind myself what I see online is not what’s actually going on. I remind myself no one can look perfect and perfect doesn’t exist, that my body does a lot for me and I should be kind to it. Sometimes it is too much, in those cases I just try to relax and not think too much about how I look whether that’s by reading a book, having a bath or whatever else and then try to be kind to myself again the next day until it works again.”
Secondly, how did your body positive journey start and what influenced you to start posting body positive content on social media?
What Is your self care routine? “ One: tell myself three things daily I like about myself. Two: make sure my social media is a happy place to go to. Three: Look at my body often and show appreciation. Four: dance around my room to make sure my body gets the movement it needs. Five: make sure I care for my body ( eat, drink etc) That’s the best way I care for myself.”
“I put on a lot of weight through having depression and then I lost a lot of weight and I realised I was not happy with my body at any stage. Then I realised it was more than that it was my mind that needed changing so I tried to do different things to try and make that change. As well as that I saw Nelly London” who Is a body positive influencer “on Instagram and I saw she was spreading a body positive message and I wanted to do the same. I know I have helped a lot of my friends with it in the past so I felt like I could help people more people and the more people I could help the better.”
Lastly, if you could give any advice to anyone struggling with their own body confidence and acceptance what would you tell them? “Advise I would give to them is be patent and be patient and consistent because it is a journey and journeys don’t happen instantly so it will happen no matter how ling it takes and I have faith in everyone.”
