Remi Bader is currently thinking about body image.
The 29-year-old influencer and curvy model shared a candid post on Instagram in which she addressed criticism and negative comments about her physique. She’s posted a series of videos modeling different outfits over the years, from two-piece bikinis and body-hugging dresses to revealing hot pink lace numbers, chic black pantsuits and a sexy white dress with cutouts.
In her lengthy caption, Bader reflected on how she’s changed over time and questioned how many people are actually happy in the body they’re in. She then addressed the criticism she has received for the way she looks.
“I hide a lot of my comments here for my own mental health. Words like “fat”, “whale”, “fat”, “skinny”, “petite” to name a few,” she wrote. “But of course I still see them and it’s hard to see the constant conversation about my body on this app, because I also wonder why does that have to be the most important thing about me?”
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Speaking about her recent transformation, she said this time last year, it was “too big for society, the people closest to me and a bad example for the world”. Now she said that she is being criticized for losing weight.
“This August I am too small for my community, too small for some brands, but still too big for many, and STILL too big for society,” she wrote.
Although her appearance has changed, Bader said she still sees herself the same way “because my body has fluctuated since the day I could remember that my brain never caught up with knowing if I was bigger or smaller or what I actually looked like. ”
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“Everybody on the outside was telling me that about me,” she wrote.
She went on to say that one day she will talk about the “enormous amount of trauma” she has experienced over the past year, however, “now is just not the time.”
I am much bigger than my body and I will always be the same Remi regardless of my weight and I am sure of that – she concluded.
Remi Bader in May 2023.
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In a voiceover accompanying the video, Bader encouraged fans to be happy with their bodies as they are now, and not look back with longing for what they once were.
She urged fans to “celebrate the life that led to a bigger body,” noting that they would give themselves some grace if it was the only body they’d ever known.
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“I’m afraid that if we don’t learn to love our bodies even as they get bigger, as they change, we’ll forever wish we were who we are,” she continued. “Because I know you didn’t like the body you wanted back, right? I know you always wanted to be different, you wanted to be smaller and you wanted to take up less space.”
“If you don’t learn today not to be ashamed of your body, well, that would be the biggest shame of all. Because time won’t stand still or give you another day to hate yourself.”
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