‘Let your soul shine through’: Malin Andersson shows fans her cellulite and stretch marks in powerful video as she urges them to embrace their bodies
Since rising to fame on Love Island back in 2015, she’s used her platform to promote, among other things, body positivity and mental well-being.
And Malin Andersson shared a powerful video with her Instagram followers on Wednesday, showing her cellulite, stretch marks and C-section scar.
Wearing a brown sports bra with matching bottoms, the 27-year-old TV personality stood before the camera and showed each area of her body in close-up shots as she gave a brief explanation for each of the physical characteristics.
Body positivity: Malin Andersson shared a powerful video with her Instagram followers on Wednesday, as she continued to promote body positivity
She said: ‘My stomach helped create my beautiful girl. My c-section scar allowed her to take her first breath. My cellulite reminds me that I’m normal.
‘My stretch marks show me that I’ve gone through a beautiful change. My soul shines through all of the above. Let your soul shine through too.’
Reality star Malin recently revealed that her late mother, also called Consy, ‘contributed’ to her eating disorder.
Honest post: Wearing a brown sports bra with matching bottoms, the 27-year-old TV personality stood before the camera and showed each area of her body in close-up shots
Body: She showed her social media followers her cellulite, stretch marks and C-section scar
Writing in her column for OK!, Malin shared her belief that the pressure from her parent and the beauty pageants she competed in as a child affected her negatively as an adult.
Although she believes her mother meant well, Malin shared the lasting-impact her childhood trauma had on her eating disorder.
She wrote in her column: ‘Because my mum starved her whole life, she wanted me to look a certain way and go into beauty pageants.
‘She wanted us to be healthy and have the right food so we were restricted from junk food a lot.’
Physical characteristics: In a caption accompanying her post, she gave a brief explanation for each of the physical characteristics in question
Normal: She said, ‘My stomach helped create my beautiful girl. My c-section scar allowed her to take her first breath. My cellulite reminds me that I’m normal’
As a teenager and beyond, her eating disorder surfaced through calorie counting, binge eating and constantly monitoring how much she weighed.
She added: ‘That’s childhood trauma. It wasn’t my mum’s fault because she didn’t know any better.’
As part of her road to recovery, Malin believes it’s important to heal from childhood trauma and forgive parents for any missteps they make.
The activist concluded her column by saying that she has ‘fully healed’ and offered support to anyone else going through the same thing.
Malin tragically lost her mother Consy to cancer in 2017, while her daughter, also named Consy, tragically passed away in January 2019 after she was born seven weeks premature.
Candid: Malin recently said that she believes the pressure from her mum and beauty pageants that she competed in as a child affected her negatively as an adult
Pressure: The Love Islander revealed that her late mother, Consy, pressured her to look a certain way and entered her into competitions which contributed towards her issues with food
Heartache: Malin lost her mother Consy to cancer in 2017, while her daughter, also named Consy, tragically passed away in January 2019 after she was born seven weeks premature