When you hear about the ubiquitous "before and after" photo, you typically expect the version of the person in the after to look slimmer, fitter, and happier. Much of this has to do with our societal obsession with thinness and the idea that losing weight means you've become healthier, often no matter the method. However, many folks are challenging this conception, including model and body-positive Instagrammer Khrystyana. The most notable before and after convention she follows in her recent post is that she definitely looks happier in the more recent snap.
In her post, she talks about what it was like to be a straight-size model and the pressure to be thin. She writes, "In 2013 I thought I wasn't small enough to be a fashion model and technically i have never been small enough. Even back then with all the dietary suffering and daily long hours at the gym I was at 37.5 hip size, a bit too thick." Due to these pressures, her mental health was on the back-burner. "I did not care about my happiness nor mental health, it was all about getting the next gig. I found myself depressed going through identity crisis." She allowed herself to take a bit of a break from the intense dieting and, as a result, says she gained some weight. Though she says in the caption this decision exhausted her at first, eventually, the exhaustion freed her from thoughts she'd previously held about herself.
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She learned to stop judging herself so harshly and started asking some hard questions. "Why? Why should we ever wreck ourselves? For career? parental approvals? romances? or fame? Why did I? Why would you ever?" Now, she lives a life filled with self-love, and it shows in her photos. We've asked Khrystyana if she has any more to say about the changes in her life since 2013 — if she gets back to us, we'll update this page.
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