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Katie Fitzpatrick

Love Island star celebrates 'imperfections' as she embraces her 'normal' tummy in Valentine's message

She won hearts on the 2021 series of Love Island and Liberty Poole has been applauded for sharing an inspirational Valentine's Day message of body positivity. Liberty, 23, who made the decision to walk from the ITV2 dating show after splitting from Jake Cornish.

Liberty has urged fans to love their bodies and called for imperfections to be 'normalised' on social media' as she shared pictures from a photoshoot and behind-the-scenes snaps and video of herself in a scorching red underwear set.

She wrote with a video of herself striking sultry poses: "You can look like this posed, however..." Liberty then shared an unposed picture of herself smiling widely as she lay back and grabbed her tummy and urged: "NORMALISE NORMAL BODIES!!"

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Liberty also shared some final snaps from the shoot - one of her in a posed standing position and another of her beaming as she showed her 'normal' tummy.

"Happy Valentines - Love your body and normalise imperfections on social media," she typed. "Couldn’t think of a better day to accept every part of ourselves!

Liberty shared behind-the-scenes pictures (Liberty Poole/Instagram)

"My tummy has always been one of my biggest insecurities it’s where I gain weight and I suffer with being very bloated at times. But you know what that’s normal!

"So we shouldn’t be made to feel like it isn’t. Growing up and still to this day sometimes I still feel the need to look picture perfect but it isn’t day to day life.

"We have good days, bad days and all the days in-between. I felt like I had to lose weight to fit in with the low waist skirt and cargo fashion trend otherwise people would stare at my tummy and assume I was pregnant or comment on it.

She served up an important message for Valentine's Day (Liberty Poole/Instagram)

"And you know what I went out in low waist the other day and didn’t care!! Everyday I choose me over anyone so I owe it to myself to love every part of me to posed and unposed. If I can do it YOU can too . Love you all Lib."

YouTube beauty twins Lucy and Lydia Connell praised: "You’re amazing Liberty." jaquik1966 applauded: "This is such a strong message to young impressionable girls. I wish more media personalities were like that. The most important love is loving yourself."

looneykitten3 told her: "Thanks for keeping it real lady!! Too many girls out here are suffering low self esteem, trying to keep up with what they think is a perfect world when the reality is that our imperfections are what make us original & what actually makes us perfect! The world would be a pretty boring place if we all looked the same xx"

milliecourtuk wrote: "You are beautiful libs and you’re such an inspiration for everyone else who feels insecure about their bodies, we’re all beautiful no matter what shape or size." And natasha.wright.x said: "All of a sudden I don't feel so awful about myself. Thank you so much for posting this because you're one person I look at and think 'she's so beautiful'" And beau.wheele said: "Honestly you should be so proud of yourself that takes a lot to do that."

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