Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha has taken to her social media to share an empowering message about learning to love yourself and finding joy in body acceptance. The 58-year-old television personality posted a series of images of herself sporting a bikini over the years and pointed out the pictures when she was visibly unhappy in comparison to more recent snaps where she has accepted her body.
Writing on Instagram alongside this video montage of images, she wrote: "CELL U LITE … so the **** what !!.. so much time wasted hating on myself …
"The black and white photo was taken by @the_mcgiff twenty years ago .. look how unhappy I was .. horrified that a photo was being taken of me in a bikini..desperately trying to cover my body …
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"Well you can see from the pics decades later that body acceptance , not confidence (who is truly confident) not body positive (I don’t really know what that means) but body ACCEPTANCE is where to find the joy ..
"Look how joyful I am ! The world doesn’t stop turning if you can find a way to accept yourself … ‘Those that mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind ‘
"To anyone that’s letting the nasty voices live rent free in their head today … it doesn’t have to be like that forever … trust me … I promise .."
Soon after posting this on Monday, January 23, the chat show host and actress's comments were flooded with celebratory messages in agreement with such an uplifting and encouraging message.
Actress Jo Joyner simply wrote: "Amen" while user @jackiemtob thanked the star for being so open: "thanku for doing this, really helps to look at my reflection after seeing u, not that im slim i just mean cos you never see anything but so called perfection everywhere! The bloody manikins in the shop even!"
Another commented: "You are amazing" before adding: "You are inspirational and maybe one day I'll find the courage to be more Nadia!" alongside @lisamercer04 who said: "That you so much Nadia. I wish I could of seen this post years ago, I would not of wasted the past 30 years hating my body. You and you alone and your post and words have made the difference to me and my mindset. I feel set free. Thank you."
Nadia has become no stranger to flaunting her figure in little clothing on her Instagram. She regular posts photos mirroring poses and pictures of other celebrities like Kim Kardashian and models labelling the series 'INSTAGRAM VS REALITY' in jest.
This post comes just a few months after Nadia opened up on Loose Women about her recent diagnosis of ADHD, which she described as life-changing - read more about that here.
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV
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