This put up comprises dialogue of consuming issues and physique picture points.
Julie defined why she thinks she struggled as an adolescent. “I interpreted being messy or making errors or having an ass or like fats popping out of the highest of your denims [as] a logo that you just could not include your self,” she mentioned.
“That you just had been an excessive amount of, and that to be good meant staying contained in the traces — actually and figuratively,” Julie continued. “Holding it tight. And that is my perspective: tight.”
“And by the way in which, that isn’t enjoyable. It isn’t a enjoyable solution to dwell.”
Julie additionally remembers “struggling” and “not liking that feeling of adjusting” when it got here to puberty. “We did not speak about something, and it simply kind of felt like…soiled,” she remembered.
“And I spotted, while you’re actually ravenous, you haven’t any emotions. It is type of wonderful. The physique goes, ‘We do not have time for that.’ So I believe it was a coping mechanism.”
Julie is the mum or dad to a few kids, together with her 13-year-old twins John and Gustav — and through the interview with Tamron, she remembered being body-shamed after giving beginning to them.
“I had my twins in 2009, and I used to be in Hawaii taking pictures Fashionable Household…lower than a 12 months later,” she recalled. “I used to be working and breastfeeding, and I jumped within the ocean with my husband on the time carrying a bikini — nobody was round — and by the point we obtained as much as the room, there had been paparazzi like within the rocks hidden away, and it was the nastiest.”
“Like, ‘What’s unsuitable together with her? That is disgusting.’ Folks circling my stomach and my boobs and [saying], ‘That is nasty.'”
“I felt like I had performed one thing unsuitable. Like someone took an image of you in your most personal second. And [the paparazzi] had no thought my physique simply did one thing fucking wonderful.”
