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Whenever you hear someone say 'my therapist told me...' listen. That's free therapy.

This is so powerful, for years I avoided looking at my reflection, because I felt ugly. Slowly I now take time every day to just look at myself and my self image is usually neutral or positive.

I hate that women's bodies aren't celebrated aesthetically after giving birth. Like, ma'am, you made a whole ass human being with that. That's fucking gorgeous.

I lost my baby 5 days after he was born (I have no photos because he was in ICU) and all I have to remember him by now (that he existed) is my stretch marks 💛

I did this, and also chilled at home in just the bra and undies. You start realizing your body is more than something to look at, you find the beauty in the way your legs carry you, arms bring you the things you love, my tummy makes a great pillow for the cat 😂 my point is, realize you’re more than something to be admired, you’re an experience.

This almost brought me to tears. Girl, right there with you

Okay I lost it when she said "You know what her thighs kinda cute"🤣☠ but Ima try that because I hate my body 🙃

My boyfriend told me to do this cuz he saw I was having a hard time after the baby and the longer I looked at my self the more I loved my self and thought that I was pretty ☺️

Ironically when I was at school today I talked to one of my teachers about my body dysmorphia and she told me to do this exact thing and said by day three I would probably see some improvement so this kinda made me smile seeing that it worked for someone else

That's strangely true, i think i find out that the more you stay naked at home, and look at yourslef in the mirror, the more you get used to your body and get confident to It, and even like it .

I stand in the mirror naked for 20 min just roasting myself Ngl 💀😭

"I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror"

My mom taught me when I was a child to look myself in the eye in the mirror every day and tell myself I love you. She made me do it. At first it was hard, but after a while I became comfortable and I did feel a lot better. I am an adult now. Should start doing that again 🤔 😊

admiring how you look in the mirror feels narcissistic at first, but it's just nice after a while like your reflection is just another person you begin to appreciate.

Do this everyday and has really changed my whole perspective on myself

An award for the therapist, and an award for Miss Trainor. Bigggg round of applause. That’s raw, cool af.

I’ve missed seeing megan trainor, she was such a breath of fresh air.

I give birth in two weeks. The stretch marks really are hard to deal with. I always loved swimming but the bikinis I always thought were cute suddenly looked really ugly on me. It hit hard on a public river access when I was asked to cover my belly because it was freaking out this dudes son. I was asked by a child if I needed a doctor on that same day because my belly looked "really red and streaky" I know they're just kids and they don't know any better, but the hit to my confidence was pretty solid. I still haven't come to terms with my stretch marks. I'm not really sure where to start on gaining that confidence back.

I've had 3 kids and always hated my body afterward until I seen a social media post of a mommy's stomach that said to love your stomach, that was your babies first home. I looked at it totally different after that. Growing another human is a miracle and one not every woman gets to do so feel blessed and love yourself.

This is what I've been doing! It's life-changing. Self love is really important

It's so hard to love yourself. ❤️ especially when you parents just belittled everything you did and still do.

Currently pregnant and in my 30's. Really proud of myself for being able to accept that my body is changing for something so beautiful. I spent enough of my 20's hating my body. I just felt over it. Once i separated my perspective from the body images we are force fed by the world.... you just kind of realize everything is okay. To do things that make you feel healthy happy and strong. Not so much accepted, desired, perfect and good looking to others.

I love this! We are an experience, our bodies are the vessels through which we live our life and we should celebrate them for that. Not be neutral because it's pretty/fits standards/or is good enough etc/ but wildly grateful for the way our bodies work. It's easy to forget that when we compare ourselves, but yours are the only eyes through which you can see the world, the only hands through which you can act. Focus on that, focus on your being and your doing❤

I started doing this to my self by looking in the mirror before I shower just posing and staring and then I started saying things like “ooo woww im cute” “dang I’m so pretty” and over the time I’ve started seeing how beautiful I am ❤

I’ve never seen her not glammed up and I gotta say she is a natural beauty!! She looks great with or without makeup but There is just something about seeing her as her but in a normal person mode. You know?

The fact that she’s calling herself “Her” shows a sign of dissociation. This is very common after having a child and believing that your body is no longer yours and belongs to your baby. Her therapist/doctor was right on. Cheers to a happy healing process and acceptance of your body!

I was just at a hotel on a trip for 5 days and my hotel didn’t have a mirror for whoever reason and I’ve always hated the way I look and whatnot but I didn’t think anything of not seeing myself. Then I got home and saw myself in the mirror, I started crying because it was only when I couldn’t see myself was when I was truly comfortable in my body. There’s so much I wish I could just snap my fingers and change but I can’t and there have been so many times lately where all I can think about is how I look and I hate it so much. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk even tho I know like 3 people will see this lol.

Wonderful! Self acceptance has also made a huge difference in my life! Good for her

That's so true. My body is my biggest insecurity. I never saw my body naked coz i thought i will hate it more. First day i saw , it was literally traumatic . I felt like i want to do something to really get that fat off my body. I felt horrible and didn't wanted to do that anymore but then i started doing this after getting out of shower while getting dressed . I have the same body but now its normal for me . I say to myself that it don't even look that bad instead my body looks beautiful with all that thight fat belly fat 😅😅. I compliment myself now.. Sometimes i feel horrible when i am with ppl As i get conscious but then i come back home with really bad mood and while changing when i see my body in mirror i was like i didn't even look that bad . Its cute and good

Preach it. It's crazy what positive thoughts and positivity in general does for the psyche. 💖 P.S as soon as she said "you kno wut..her thighs are cuute" I fangirled 🥰❤️

It actually works. I've always looked myself in the mirror and it gives me a lot of confidence.

I did it since I was a teen.. always loved watching my body.. was so grateful being healthy

As someone with eczema, it has been difficult for me to look at my body. Everytime i look at the dark dry patches on my skin, it makes me feel so insecure and i couldnt even wear whatever i want. It really takes time to appreciate and love our body. I'm trying to get there

Exactly what I do sometimes randomly lol

I bawled my eyes out the day I looked in a full length mirror after birth (it took WEEKS to pluck up the courage to even do so). I truly believed that my body was ruined forever. And it was CHANGED forever. Covered in stretch marks, loose skin, varicose veins, flat saggy boobs. But it wasn’t ruined. It was such a tough feeling to unlearn. I basically had to deprogram everything society had taught me growing up as a female.

Thank u for this. It’s been hard getting older watching my face change from cute to ok. I gotta remember my life is what’s valuable.

All women need to hear this,thank you!♥️♥️♥️

She’s so pretty and adorable at the same time .

She is literally the best, she’s so inspirational and beautiful and we should all learn from her 💕💕💕

This was actually something I did when I was dealing with my body image issues too. It helped a lot.

I do this on the daily to feel better about myself because I really worry about my face and weight, and I always thought I was a box figure but I have an hourglass shape. I guess I never really noticed my small glowups since freshman year, but I did glow. Doing this really makes me feel better about myself, no one else can see me, no one else justifies me. It's just me.

Ive been doing this recently & it definitely made me love myself more. Its tough but you accept it and love it as days goes by, it made me more confident too ❤

“I see myself changing” be aware of that feeling when you have it Thats the key

Moms make kids.... it's simply amazing! 🌹 Love your mission

Love yourself the way you are ❤

I don’t have a therapist but this happened to me when I just hated myself as a kid and now I love myself a lot all of a sudden

Honestly that’s such a good way to see yourself differently in a healthy way.

Confronting the things you try to avoid is the real key to progress.

It works!!! You start feeling cute in the end. You appreciate the feminine ❤️

Simple, practical, important exercises that we need to introduce that creates massive change in mental state and perspective. Love this!

Very relatable. Love how she shares

I can relate. My c-section and stretch marks have made me very body conscious. I learned how to look at my scars and see the beauty that came from it. 2 amazing kids that fill my life with joy! I’m still learning how to love my own body.

This is true I've been doing for 2 months now I was struggling a lot with my confidence due to buulyihg cause im supposedly fat so February I started a weight loss journey and I lost 20kg in 4 months but I was still not happy with myself so I asked for counselling at university so my psychologist suggested The positive affirmations every day ❤ first time to 4 I just cried on the mirror Day 5 I started complimenting my hands and I've been growing since and no im not yet there but my self love is definitely on like 40- 50% which is great especially cause im coming from 0

My therapist told me to do so too. I hated every second of it. I asked her if we could take a different approach. We figured it out but I totally relate to the feeling described here.

I came to KZfaq looking for ideas to paint a cardboard box. As always, found something I didn't ask for but didn't know I needed. God bless this wonderful woman ❤

I used to do the same, the first month i was very depressed, the second i started loving my body. I still do it.

Seriously this works. I was 36 when I did this and finally really saw my reflection vs what I thought I looked like. That day I finally learned how to love myself as is ! :)

I love how her hair looks in this and I must try it

thank god she started to find that comfort again. my heart goes out to anyone who's struggled with body image issues. remember that no matter what, your body is inherently good. every single one of us is deserving of food, love, and comfort.

She's gorgeous and amazing in every way

This is nice to hear. I had a baby a couple months ago, and while it wasn't my first pregnancy, it changed my body drastically. So much so that I feel like I'm trapped in someone else's. Healing takes time, and I'm sure I'll adjust, and someday I'll be ready to love it.

This was meant for me. I just had my second child and I gained 70lbs during my pregnancy. I need to learn how to love my body again. I’m buying a mirror tomorrow.

So true! I would tell myself every morning all of the things I hated about myself. One day I said to myself, “Just say one nice thing about yourself. Can you come up with one nice thing?” I could. Then the next day it was “come up with one nice thing that you didn’t say yesterday.” And I could. It changes your mindset completely and over time you see your flaws as perfection in their own way.

I did something like this when I had bad body image issues. Every time I looked in the mirror, I would compliment myself. At first, the compliments were fake, but then they slowly turned sincere, and my confidence has only been growing ever since. It's crazy how powerful your mind can really be- especially in situations like these

That’s what I had to do to increase my self confidence My mom unknowingly broke me down when I was younger and kids made fun of me My mom would say your beautiful but you would be even more beautiful skinny And I was working out and eating right like the rest of my fam but they were dropping weight like crazy and I just wasn’t at all I didn’t understand and I started hating myself My mom said I was just not doing it right I wasn’t trying hard enough Then we found out I had a hormone imbalance and had PCOS which makes it extremely hard for me to lose weight but very easy to gain My mom has apologized to me but at that point the damage was done and I was making jokes about myself and my looks and my friend said I should stop because it will start coming true in my mind and I would hate myself So I did the opposite after I decided to change and forced myself to look in the mirror Once I could do that I complimented myself Found something I loved And slowly I was able to be like you know what I’m cute and even tho I’m not skinny I got that ass tho and I was able to love myself I’m still working on my journey to get healthy but no reason to hate myself while doing it And I’m trying to help my mom as well to build her confidence and the first time I had her do it she cried because it was so hard for her She hated her wrinkles on her face and everything about her I told her I love her wrinkles They show all the times she smiled while I was growing up The times she would laugh and show her love It shows her beauty and soul inside and that’s not something to be ashamed of And it helped but she is still working on loving herself but she has come further than she was so I’m happy :)

Meghan is such a good role model 😍 absolutely love everything about her!

Thank you for being so real. It truly helped me watching you talk so openly about the relationship you have with your body.

I literally do this and tell people all the time it’s a game changer for your self love

Bro I love MT and have always loved her sm. Everything she says and does is so body positive or just people positive in general. I’m just gonna bet she’s a great mother :)

Agreed!! The more i check myself out in the mirror the more confident i feel with my appearance.

I’m going to do that now. Thank you beautiful because you’re not just helping me but helping millions and millions of ppl.

I had three csections and I love my body. It created three miracles in my life that I have ultimate gratitude for. Body is temporary but the love for my babies is forever!

I felt this❤️ 30 years old. 3 kids later it's hard to feel beautiful 💯 but as you grow older. You're like who cares. Iam comfortable, I love my kids. Iam who iam💯 take it or leave it💯❤️

I love how her natural look😍 and hair too. 😊

there was a time when I was having a lot of acne, dark spots or discoloration... Nobody told me to look at myself in the mirror everyday, but I did it anyway.. it does make you feel insecure at first but as you look at yourself more you just learn to accept it then just love it.. you'll just feel your confidence come back

Yesss I love this! It’s so hard to appreciate your own body when you have the fake world of social media 😭

I am a little nervous about my body changing after children! But also stoked to see what it’s capable of 🙂💭

I didn't wanted to look at my face when i was a kid. Now i keep staring at my reflection, like this girl is so confident and pretty ❤️

I remember the first time I look at the mirror after doing c section I cried, its like I dont feel like myself. Its been like that everyday but I think because my mom always place mirrors everywhere, I can accept that I am not that bad as what I used to think and goes on with my life. So shoutout to mommies out there, you rock

I appreciate the honesty, I too am smothered in stretch marks

Your gourgous inside and out , thank you For inspiring. 💗B-LOVE

This is helpful. This is exactly what I'm going through since my c section and baby. I can't even look, I just cry

It is so hard for women to love the bodies that have worked SO hard to bring us our beautiful HEALTHY babies!!! We need to thank our bodies for all they do for us instead of torturing ourselves. It's hard as hell,myself including! Thank you Mrs, Megan for the reminder to be kinder to ourselves! Xoxo

I haven’t looked in the mirror for almost 6 years. As arrogant as it sounds, I thought I was one of few who feared it. I’m gonna try this.

I started doing that almost a year ago, complementing my reflection every morning and encouraging myself. Jin (from BTS) suffered from low self steem and was difficult for him to know his self worth, and he told on a live that he does this everyday, and encouraged ARMY to do it too, and always remembered to be kind with yourself, definitely BTS has save me more than in just one way 💜 This really works, it's difficult, but worth it. And im happy Meghan is doing it, she's so great and deserves to feel great 💜

Thank you for sharing this, Meghan. After I had my daughter, my confidence was at it's lowest. My belly was flabby and full of stretch marks, half of my hair fell off, and I started to break out all over the place. It was a tough time to the point where i lived in sweats and didn't even want to go out. It took a lot of time and courage to face myself every day but slowly I started to love the body I have now.

Happy chills!!! Great message from the heart ❤️ Thank you ☺️ Smiles, Lana

This is me dealing with my acne! I get that sometimes people commented my acne so that I would taking care of myself but the thing is I did getting th treated, went to the dermatologist, stop eating egg yolks, chocolate, spicy food all my faves. Until one day as I keep looking in the mirror, I started to realize its not that bad. Oh wow... Still I can be pretty and I look beautiful 😁 And here I am at the level where I'm okay going out without make up 😂

Yessss!! I did the same 30 years ago in my journey of healing and loving myself to the deepest call including everything physical about me. The brain does absolutely shift. On the fourth day l smiled back at myself where as on the 1st day, I could barely look at myself in the mirror. Life is so magical when one loves themselves completely!!❤❤❤

"Her thighs are cute"😘 I ADORE HER!! It's very powerful to LOVE YOURSELF ANYWAY❣️

That's what I'm doing too.. I had Dermatilomania for more than 10 years of my life. It started at school when i was hitting the puberty and the kids were bullying each other for looks. And it kinda stoped a year ago.. but i still have the scars all over my body and they will never go away, so i gotta accept that and make peace with it.. But it gets harder sometimes when people give me their looks like I'm disgusting, or contagious or something.. I'm trying to ignore them, but it gets harder sometimes..

I used to hate my stretch marks on my legs until one day I watched a video of someone saying they’re like little lightning bolts I have never been insecure about them since.

I unintentionally did this when I was a teen. There was a part of my body I didn’t like but at 19 I started seeing the beauty of my body. It worked.

The first step to acceptance is acknowledgement!

That's right ✅️ I also do that 🥰

As someone who battled body image issues and eating issues. I didn't start loving by body till i started using it for and judging it by what it was meant to do (not what it's suppose to look like) i started pole dancing and seeing how much strength I gained and how I would use my skin and fat to grab onto the pole. Also regularly seeing yourself in shorts and a top and others with different body types (skinny people without curves, chubby people with them, muscular people with broad shoulders), it just all became okay. Im okay with it now

Meghan is such a legend. Us Aussies just love her and her vibrant personality. We think she is beautiful 💕

You gave LIFE. There is NOTHING more special or important! What a gift to give life! Those stretch marks, extra weight, etc. are the stories of the most important, most proud day(s) of your life & story. Something that will be lost in the family tree you've created. Kids are your legacy. It doesn't get better than that. ❤

I remember this one interview BTS did and one member Jin said every time he leaves the shower, he looks at his body in the mirror and complements himself and that gives him confidence. It really is a good way to give yourself some grace