Bachelor in Paradise star Jessica reveals truth behind bikini photo
TV star Jessica Brody has opened up about the reality behind her perfect Instagram selfies, revealing she doesn’t want “to contribute to a culture of negative body image”.
Brody, who first appeared on Matt Agnew’s season of The Bachelor before going on to Bachelor in Paradise this year, posted two bikini selfies side-by-side on Instagram, showing the difference posing made.
In the caption she wrote that “PERFECT BODIES DON’T EXIST” but “lighting and angles do”.
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“After years of weight loss and gain, I have loose skin,” Brody said, revealing she had lost around 24 kilos.
“On some angles I can make it look tight but as soon as I sit down or move it’s pretty obvious and that’s fine!”
Brody said she was sharing this post because she doesn’t “want young people to see my photos and feel sh*t about their bodies”.
“Like everyone, I have so many body insecurities but I’m trying to learn to accept and love them,” she wrote.
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In a series of videos posted to her Instagram story last week, Brody said that her weight “fluctuates a lot” due to anxiety.
She said she was always “bigger” in high school but had lost weight when she fell sick with a mystery illness at 19.
“I then got addicted to losing weight, which then turned into a form of an eating disorder,” Brody said.
Since then Brody said her weight has “just sort of gone up and down” and encouraged others not to make remarks about people’s weight loss.
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“If I am quite small like I am at the moment it’s usually due to anxiety and not being able to keep food down, not being able to eat properly,” she said.
“I just don’t think we need to comment on people’s weight in general.”
During her time on Bachelor in Paradise, Cassandra Mamone was criticised by viewers for making an “inappropriate” remark about Brody’s body on the show.
“You’ve lost so much weight!” Mamone had exclaimed at Brody when she arrived in Fiji.
Viewers accused Mamone of giving her a backhanded compliment, however, Brody said it wasn’t meant with ill-intent.
“That comment sucked, but I don’t think it was malicious,” she told Popsugar.
“I don’t think Cass had any ill intent, I think she just didn’t really think about the gravity of her words.
“My weight has fluctuated by about 20 kilos throughout my life and I think she’s someone who’s always been small and doesn’t really think about the gravity of that. I’ve explained it to her since and she gets it and I don’t think she’ll make comments like that again.”
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