Not Dead Yet's Gina Rodriguez Shares Swimsuit Photo Honoring Husband

Gina Rodriguez is expressing her gratitude for her husband – in her swimsuit. In a recent social media post the Not Dead Yet star shows off her incredible body in a bathing suit while also revealing her deep love for her significant other. “I feel our memories in the fabric of my hair. Every goosebump on my skin another time you have made my heart skip a beat. You gave me a son and as he sleeps on my lap I see your love all over his spirit. Here are 10 pics of us because I can’t stop scrolling through my favorites album. This man, this love, how did I get so lucky?” she captioned the Instagram post. “Just beautiful!!!” commented her friend, Viola Davis. “y’all are just beautiful,” added Liza Koshy.

1. No Diets

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Gina doesn’t buy into diet culture. "It's important to celebrate my successes with the people around me. Eating, drinking, and toasting are big parts of my family gatherings," she told Shape. "I think body positivity is important because it frees up a lot of worrying and a lot of stress we spend on it daily. Instead, put all that time and energy into doing the things you want to do and making your dreams come true."

2. Tackling Health Problems

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Rodriguez suffers from Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune condition that impacts the thyroid and can lead to an underactive thyroid. When first diagnosed, Gina revealed to Self that it felt like “the curse of a lifetime,” especially due to the potential weight gain implications. “To the core of my being, I know what it’s like to feel like there is no way I can win this, so where do I even begin,” she said. “[Hashimoto’s] affects so many aspects of your life. I’ve had it for so many years…that rebellion of not taking care of myself can’t exist anymore.”

3. Boxing and Muay Thai

Gina loves boxing and Muay Thai. “No pain, no Muay Thai. I came here to transform. I came here to face my demons and bad habits. I went full force into training and it wasn't comfortable or easy but discipline never is and life never is. Everyday I want to grow stronger, I may fail but I will try. Everyday I want to grow wiser, I may fail but I will try. Life knocks you down and it can hurt but that has never stopped me before and so I repeat no pain, no Muay Thai,” she captioned this Instagram post.

4. Fiber and Vegetable Protein

Due to her health condition, Hashimoto’s Gina has to be careful with her diet, fueling her body with what it needs. "Fatigue is already an issue with Hashimoto's, and some scenes can really take a lot out of you," she told Shape. "That's a by-product of the job, so I keep my energy up by being conscientious about the food I put in my body-eating more fiber and vegetable protein."

5. Cheat Meals

"I eat healthily and work out, so I don't worry about having a red velvet cupcake or slice of pizza,” Gina told Shape. “I can’t say I’m on point, always on it, because, man, I’m flawed,” she added to Self. “I want the burger and the ice cream and the red velvet cupcakes. I want the croissant with my coffee, even though gluten doesn’t do me justice.”

6. Surfing

As can be seen in her recent social media post, Gina is a surfer. According to the Australian government’s Better Health, surfing provides many health benefits including cardiovascular fitness from paddling, shoulder and back strength, which also strengthens from the paddling, and leg and core strength. “Once you’re standing up on the board, strong legs and a strong core will keep you up,” they say.

1. No Sugar

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Rodriguez avoids sugar and tries to live a balanced lifestyle when it comes to health and wellness. "Beauty starts inside and if you have a horrible diet or you have horrible sleeping habits or you're a smoker or you drink a lot, then you need to balance that out with spa life and other things like that,” she says. “I go for lots of water, lots of vegetables. I try to keep it clean as much as possible. [Sugar is] a killer, man. But it's nasty, it's disgusting. It just sits in your body and accumulates all these nasty yeasts and things.”

2. Low-Key Beauty

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Rodriguez keeps it simple when it comes to her beauty routine. "I cover my blemishes when I go out on the town with some tea tree oil to disinfect them, and then I'll put on an oil-free cover up under my eyes if I didn't sleep,” she says. “After that I will apply a little lip stain on the cheeks (if I've neglected my weekly vitamin intake) for a fresh complexion. I'll put a little mascara, but that sums it up. I'm not much of a beauty queen but I do believe the advice worth giving is maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Skin and body issues are usually a representation of bodily imbalances."

3. Not Into the Hollywood Lifestyle

Rodriguez is not interested in the glamorous trappings of the entertainment industry. “I enjoy vanity like the best of them. But I can’t stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it’s empty and cold and soulless,” she says. “So I have to travel and go find some real people. After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I’ve never been to before and introducing myself to a new religion—I’ll go to Bali and research Hinduism, or I’ll go to Thailand and get another tattoo from [Thai tattoo artist] Ajarn Noo [Kanpai].”

4. Action Movie Roles

Rodriguez loves playing action movie characters. “Like I’ve always felt like a lot of the work that I’ve done has been kind of a hyper masculinized version of femininity,” she says. “And it’s because action movies were the only place where I could go to be free from being the girlfriend or the girl who’s crying over some guy and the guy’s everything. The only way I could get away from that was making action movies. And it’s taken me a while to figure out where the femininity is in that because, you know, to exert any kind of strength or freedom, it’s usually a physical fight or some sort of brute force. And I really don’t think that that is the true now that I’m older essence of strength, of femininity.”

5. Fast & Furious Pride

Rodriguez is thrilled at how the Fast & Furious franchise has grown, with more female roles. "We've grown so much in the last 18 years, and it's all of us, we're in it together," she says. "It's cool that they were open enough to change and to evolve with the times... I really think that 9 is doing some justice for all the girls. I'm really proud of each and every woman in F9."