Lauren Chan in Bathing Suit Makes "Rookie Debut"
Lauren Chan is making her "rookie debut" in the Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. The model, entrepreneur, and fashion editor shows off her beautiful body in photos released by the iconic magazine in one of her latest social media posts. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Lauren Chan approaches health and wellness and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!
She Goes to Therapy
Lauren is a big proponent of therapy, revealing that it was instrumental in helping her realize she was gay while married to a man. "I have learned that therapy, if you can access it, is important and should not be stigmatized and is a measure of self-care that I hope that people don't see as a weakness," she recently told Sport's Illustrated.
She Meditates
"[With therapy] I've been able to get to know myself really well and prioritize how I feel and act and that has led to a really great meditation practice. I've been taking more time out of my life to sit and think about how I'm living and what I'm feeling and therefore what I want to contribute and who I want to be and all that good stuff," Lauren added to Sport's Illustrated. In a recent Instagram post she added that she does "a two-minute meditation that changes my day/mood *every* time I listen to it. It's called "Reset Your Attention" on the @calm app—and it's literally 2 minutes and 13 seconds! The meditation guides you through feeling your breath as if for the first time—and taking that sense of curiosity/discobery/joy, lack of expectations, and go-with-the-flow attitude into your day. If you're not into the breath and meditation stuff, the point still stands: try to treat today with beginner's mind—no previous hang-ups, just taking it all in—and watch your mood lighten," she wrote.
She Is "Dismantling" the "Beauty Ideal"
"I'm so excited for a chapter with SI Swimsuit in which I get to celebrate women for who we are, what we have to say, and what change we can effect," Lauren recently told People about her debut in the magazine. "I'm a size 14, I'm Asian and Middle Eastern, I'm queer," she continued, adding, "and I'm proud to be in the pages of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit in order to represent the continued dismantling of the beauty ideal — especially at a time where we are seeing a decrease in diversity on runways, in television, etc."
She Is Vulnerable
"I think that strength is vulnerability, which breeds connection, which breeds self-love, which breeds everything that you're supposed to have because you're putting your real self out there, and then the real things that you really need and deserve and want will come," Lauren told Sport's Illustrated.
She Is Authentic
"It's important to be authentic," Lauren added to Sport's Illustrated. "It's important to always be conscious of what you're creating because it impacts people for good or for bad. And a lot of what we are doing in the space of inclusion and celebration and representation is undoing what the media had done before, to make people feel othered and not good enough so that they can buy all these things that make them feel like the one standard of what is acceptable, and that doesn't work around here."
