‘I began to love my body’: Isabelle Cornish shows off her figure in a lilac bikini as she reveals her healthy approach to exercise – after revealing her battle with body image
She’s the Australian actress who has been open about her past struggles with body image.
And on Wednesday, Puberty Blues star Isabelle Cornish showed off her figure in a lilac bikini as she revealed her new healthy approach to exercise.
The 26-year-old shared a picture of herself on Instagram with an empowering caption, saying that she has slowly learned to ‘love her body.’
‘I began to love my body’: Isabelle Cornish showed off her figure in a lilac bikini on Wednesday, as she revealed her healthy approach to exercise – after revealing her battle with body image
‘Your body should be the result of a healthy lifestyle not the goal,’ Isabelle said.
‘My motivation to move my body based on external factors got poured down the drain a long time ago and I tell you what there is no better feeling than this freedom.’
She said that she likes to exercise because of the way it ‘makes her feel,’ but said it ‘wasn’t always this way.’
Refreshingly honest: ‘My motivation to move my body based on external factors got poured down the drain a long time ago and I tell you what there is no better feeling than this freedom,’ Isabelle said
‘The first thing I had to do was to stop caring and start embracing and focusing on what’s really important to me,’ she said.
‘The funny thing is, the more I released my grip the more I began to love my body. It’s such a beautiful thing to now have a connection with movement that literally feels like magic medicine to my mind, body and spirit.’
Isabelle, who is the younger sister of actress Abbie Cornish, 38, added in part of her post that doing simple things make her happy.
‘The amount of clarity, joy and love I receive from the simple act of tying up my shoe laces and putting one foot in front of the other makes me so damn grateful. Stuff doing something you don’t want to do I say.’
Fighting fit: She said that she likes to exercise because of the way it ‘makes her feel,’ but said it ‘wasn’t always this way’
In June, Isabelle revealed she had ‘despised’ her body for a year-long period while trying to keep up with the modelling industry’s standards.
The Puberty Blues star shared a photo to Instagram of herself in turquoise lingerie as she explained how ‘being skinny will never make you happy.’
‘For years I despised my body. I hated the thought of having the shape I have now,’ Isabelle wrote alongside the photo of her backside and thighs.
She added: ‘I spent my critical coming-of-age years working in the entertainment and modelling industry.
‘These environments did bring many unhealthy influences and conditionings, but I take full responsibility for what outside influences created in my world.’
Isabelle went on to explain that she hadn’t yet understood or accepted the ‘true beauty of the human form’ as a teenager and young adult.
Isabelle concluded by saying people were ‘more than any size or number’ and urged fans to ‘tune in’ to their ‘inner world.’
Raw: In June, Isabelle revealed she had ‘despised’ her body for a year-long period while trying to keep up with the modelling industry’s standards. She shared a photo to Instagram of herself in turquoise lingerie as she explained how ‘being skinny will never make you happy’