OUR FIRST BIG INSPIRATION: KATE WASLEY

Hi guys,

We hope you all have enjoyed Christmas and that you have celebrated the start of 2018 well. You will probably have, like everybody else, your list of good intentions ready for the upcoming year. We hope you have not forgotten these two: enjoy your life and love yourself!

At the start of this blog, we needed a bit of inspiration and this is why we made this section “inspiration”. And of course we have already interviewed two nice girls who have also inspired us. But today we are going to talk about a famous Instagram girl who has inspired us a lot to start making Love Your Curves.

Kate Wasley was a big inspiration to us, she is a model and is very famous on Instagram (she has 158K followers!) With her bestie she also has another Instagram profile “any.body_co” with 233K followers. Together they believe that beauty has no boundaries.

She makes a lot of shoots with her best friend, “Georgiagibbs”, who is very skinny and who probably has “the ideal body” according to the society. When we saw her, we were like “wow this girl has balls” really, she is not the skinniest but so what? She is so beautiful and so unique. Damn to accept your body that way, we embrace that so much! This is why she was an important inspiration for us.

In her Biography, you can find the link to the video where these two girls explain how they got where they are now! How they do it to keep their body like it is.

In High school Kate was overweight. So, she started a diet, she ate less calories and drank shakes etc.… She lost a lot of weight and became really skinny very quick. And that was because she went from eating so many calories a day to like 100 calories a day and her body was like “what is going on?” But then people started noticing her and complimenting her, because she looked amazing and so skinny. For sake of her diet she became really self-aware and was very tired, stopped going out with her friends. And she hated herself, hated her body and hated that she needed to fit in “this perfect size.” She was so embarrassed to tell people that she was “a large.” And now she has made that click for herself and she can tell openly that she is “a large.” Now she is healthy, she is enjoying her life again, going out with her friends all the time. But she is still “health-focused” because you need to find a right balance in your life. When she and her bestie promote being “healty” they also want to focus on mental health as well. Because she thinks that if you are mentally healthy your body is just gonna follow.

She tries to express her thoughts underneath her Instagram pictures. This is an example:

“I've been a size 18 a size 10/12 and now a 14/16. I've gone from eating cr*p every day and never exercising, being so uneducated about health and fitness that I didn't even know where to start, to eating spinach and tuna day in day out, genuinely not knowing how to eat more than 800 calories, never going out with friends, HATING my body and beating myself up if I wasn't constantly in calorie deficit, to being qualified in personal training and half way through a nutrition and Health promo degree and in a place where I have found balance and acceptance of my size and shape.

Getting here hasn’t been easy, but it is possible, and I still have days where I doubt myself or I wish I could change things about my appearance, I'm only human. But for the most part, I love myself, I accept cellulite and stretch marks as a part of growing up and my body changing. And it's important to realise that even the healthiest of people have these, why? Because they're human too. It's not our fault that we are made to see them as 'imperfections' because if you haven't noticed, the 'ideal/healthy' body is marketed to us as a flawless size 8/10, with curves In the ‘right places’, perfectly airbrushed skin with no scars, marks, cellulite or pimples. It's everywhere, force fed to us from such a young age that flawless perfection equals self worth and beauty. Social media has such a big influence on our lives and how we feel about our bodies because it is flooded with the 'ideal' version of beauty. What they don't show you is that bodies come in all different shapes, colours, sizes and we all have different markings. This is normal and beautiful. It makes us who we are. It makes us human. I could go on for ages. For now just keep pushing forward, remind yourself of how much you have to offer the world, what other people think of you, doesn't matter. You are you and that's a beautiful power in itself”

We really love the way she thinks and hope she will succeed to change people’s mind.

We also really love their pictures so you need to have a look at these girls. Because what they have done is a big change in society!

We hope this girl will have inspired you, as much as she had inspired us. The most important lesson herewith is: only know what YOU want because that's the most important. Do not please others, you're the only one who has the control of your life and knows who you want to be.

Xoxo

Cass & Elise