Shaughna Phillips in Two-Piece Gear Shares Body Positive Message

Shaughna Phillips is sharing a body positive message – in her swimsuit. In a new social media post, the Love Island star shows off her gorgeous figure while opening up to her fans. “I’ve been meaning to post this for aaaagesssss, and I just kept chickening out which sounds ridiculous but it’s the truth,” she wrote. “This is not easy for me, it’s hard to just be yourself when social media can be SO cruel at times. Full disclosure, I’m not in the place I want to be physically, I have ‘baby weight’ to lose plus a bit more lol, but I’m not going to let my intrusive thoughts about how I look get in the way of me living my life,” she continued. “I really want to be the best role model I can be for Lucia, and I’m so determined that she won’t grow up with the same warped view on body image as I did, and that’s starts with me. I know it’s a bit late for New Year’s resolutions, but I’m sure we all have room for one more 🙋🏼‍♀️ Here’s to getting real in 2024, who wants to join me?” How does the reality star approach health and wellness? Celebwell has the details on her lifestyle habits.

1. She Took Drastic Measures to Slim Down for Love Island

Shaughna went to drastic measures to lose weight for the show, sharing about it in a 17-minute video on her YouTube channel. She wouldn’t allow herself to eat treats over the 2019 Christmas period and asked her colleague to "shame" her every time she tried to. “I think for me and the series that I was in, we had it the hardest... because the casting process was over Christmas,” she said. “Everyone and anyone indulges, but because we knew we were potentially going into the villa, I for one did not have one Quality Street that whole Christmas season... Now, that was a bad Christmas.”

2. She Worked Out 90 Minutes Every Night

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She went to the gym for 90 minutes every evening and her routine was “very, very strict,” she said. “I would do 20 to 25 minutes on the treadmill very fast at a high incline. I would do a few sets on the lat pulldown machine... and then I used to do a quick circuit on the mats. I used to use like free weights and stuff and that would literally be it every single day.”

3. Working Out Makes Her Feel Better

What motivates her to stay in shape? “Honestly? I become an anxious mess if I don't work out. It sounds cliche, and everyone always says, ‘Oh when you work out you feel better,’ but it’s actually true,” she told Bustle.

4. She Launched a Nutrition Plan

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Shaughna launched her own fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle plan, Be You With Shaughna. “No before and after shots. No guaranteed ‘drop a dress size’ promises. No get fit quick plan,” she writes. “What my plan does include? Dedicated work to improve your mental health. Workouts that go at your pace. Nutritional advice aimed at encouraging your relationship with food, and not how to restrict your food.”

5. She’s an “Early Bird”

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“I've always been an early bird. Ever since I was little, I've just always been up literally before the sun,” Shaughna told Bustle. “I don't like being rushed in the morning, so although I could probably easily get another hour in bed, I would rather just get up and start waking up gradually. These days, my normal morning routine starts at 6 a.m. I get up, make my breakfast, and have a cup of coffee, or tea, depending on my mood. I watch a little bit of TV before I head to workout at 8:30 a.m. I like to get it done and dusted because that way it means nothing like social media can impact my workout.”

6. She Takes Baths

“I'm definitely a bath girl. To the point where I miss having them in the summer because the last thing you want is to increase your body temperature,” Shaughna told Bustle. “When I used to go to the gym after work, in the days before Love Island, I remember the moments when I would see a text from my mum saying, ‘Your bath is running’ and it would literally feel like I’d won the lottery. Thinking about my bath is one thing I used to do to get me through the gym. Feeling that post-workout ache and being in the bath. There is nothing better! I've got to have a lot of bubbles, not bath salts – I can just feel the grains and it makes me feel like the water is dirty. Lots of candles. I like to have my hair up, out of my face, because I get very hot and bothered.”

Model and influencer Sarah Nicole Landry is sharing some inspirational words with her 2.5 million Instagram followers. Landry, 39, posted a video of herself wearing pink workout gear, walking outside and doing yoga poses on a mat. “I hear ‘I wish I had your confidence’ everyday and the secret is - me too?? I wish I had the feeling first, but I don’t. And that’s ok. I’ve gotten so comfy with the uncomfortable. Because the alternative is holding myself back, feeling badly and letting it bleed into everything else or not doing the things I so badly want to. So I make the choice, and I forge ahead. And my gosh, does it work. I’m on cloud 9 and I started on cloud like, 2... Life is short. We can’t be waiting on feelings to give us permission to live!” she captioned the post. Here’s how the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model stays fit, confident, and happy.

1. Workout Routine

Landry found a routine she loves and sticks to. “In the beginning, I ran on a treadmill five times a week before realizing I hated running on a treadmill,” she told HuffPost. “I switched to body strength exercises I could do at home with the kids around after I found a fitness trainer mom (@bikinibodymommy) who offered free online workouts. After my weight loss (and healing from dieting and stepping into exercising for reasons more than weight loss) I found I loved weight lifting, as well as some cardio, a good long walk with the family, and dancing in my bedroom alone for half an hour.”

2. Postpartum Fitness

Landry understands how difficult postpartum fitness can be. “For me, postpartum acceptance took almost a decade and that’s not uncommon,” she told Experience Life. “Sadly, for many, it’s because we’ve been led to believe we have to ‘bounce back’ to a body we once had, when realistically, how can we? How can we be expected to ever go back to the woman we were before when we have evolved and become so much more? The “bounce forward” is truly where the magic is: Letting go of your past self; honoring her as you move forward; remembering that she had her own struggles; having respect for your body and the good job it’s done in carrying you — and your children, too.”

3. Power of Positivity

Landry is a big believer in being surrounded by positivity. “Motivation truly comes and goes,” she told Notable Life. “There will always be peaks and valleys and the key to staying motivated is seeking outside sources of motivation when your own is at a low. Surround yourself and your newsfeeds with people, places and things that help you form inspiring thoughts and decisions.”

4. Body Positivity

Landry says body positivity should not be stressful. “I feel like all it did was give everybody permission to kind of show up as they are, and we’re still working through it,” she told Glory Media. “I think there’s a lot of mixed messaging too. When we talk about body positivity, a lot of people are like ‘Well, I don’t feel positive about my body when you talk about confidence,’ or ‘I don’t feel confident in my body when you talk about self-love. I don’t love myself all the time.’ So that can be really confusing. It just feels like another hurdle to get over. It feels like we already failed at not looking the part, now we can’t even feel it—and that sucks.”

5. Creative Process

Landry says her thoughts fuel her creativity. “As humans, we experience thoughts all day long, positive and negative ones,” she told Experience Life. “We’re really good at having them and letting them flow through us, but to capture them, write them down and share them, it lends itself to a new form of creativity, vulnerability, and connection. It’s why I typically write my captions before I find an image to pair with them.”

Sarah Nicole Landry has become one of the biggest names on Instagram. She’s gained fans for her honest revelations about weight, relationships, and health. Landry has never been afraid to post stunning, revealing photos on Instagram. She just posted a new set of photos of herself posing in a pink bathing suit. In the caption, Landry wrote a poem about her body:

"An ode.

One that doesn’t always need words

Yet is writing an entire poem.

Every stripe, a strike of the pen

Every fold, a turn of the page.

The birthplace of memories.

Belly,

You are a work of unwritten art."

Read on to see 5 ways Sarah Nicole Landry stays in shape 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!

1. She Gives Herself Grace

In an interview with Jillian Harris, Landry was asked what piece of advice she would give to someone struggling with their body image. Landry answered, “To give themselves grace and remember they are not the problem or something to fix, but a person who has been saturated with messages of not being enough. Even on the worst of days, that we all deserve to show up and live our lives and make memories in them!

2. She Follows Positive Accounts

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One way Landry has developed her sense of body positivity is by following other body positive accounts. She tells Jillian Harris, “A big part of this has been following folks who echo positive messages about our relationships with food. That there is no moral value on food, no good, no bad, no “guilt-free” or “cheat days”. There is a spectrum of nutrient density, but not a moral value. Something that’s really helped me over the years.”

3. She Shows Up For Herself

Landry tells Jillian Harris that she is always showing up for herself, and wants others to do the same. “I think my goal would be to show more that we don’t have to FEEL confident or FEEL love for our bodies but SHOW UP confidently and SHOW UP in love. That doesn’t have to be rocking a bikini but rocking whatever makes you not focus on your body so you can focus on the life around you.”

4. She’s All About The Love

Landry posted this set of photos on Instagram, where she talked about diet culture, and how it has caused people to hate their bodies. Landry says that her reaction is to love her body, at all costs. “Hate is a powerful thing. But to LOVE in the face of it… Well that’s just a whole other kind of powerful.”

5. She Didn’t Feel Pressure To Lose Weight

Landry posted this set of postpartum photos on Instagram, and talked about how she is avoiding the pressure of getting back to her “pre-baby body.” She writes, “It’s ok if you look like you gave birth when you did. And honestly, if it’s going to widely accepted that there can be dad bods for men who aren’t fathers, then this statement can also be true: It’s also ok if you look like you gave birth when you *didn’t*.”

1. She’s All About Body Positivity

In her Instagram post, Kershaw promoted body positivity and the rejections of society’s beauty standards. She wrote, “Note to self: stop being so hard on yourself about the way you look. In a society where we are conditioned to hate ourselves, and always have the need to change ourselves, it can be hard to love your imperfections, but the fact you are trying to is something to be so proud of!”

2. She Doesn’t Compare Herself To Others

Kershaw opened up about her fitness journey on Instagram. She says that one thing she is working on is not comparing herself to others and letting social media influence her. "RIGHT YEAHHHH I’ve gained some weight! But I AM DONE letting social media control how I see myself now. I’m done comparing myself to others, I am done with these ‘fAke InFuENCeRs’ and ‘tRolLs’ I’m a work in progress, but aren’t we all?”

3. She’s Disciplined

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In the same post, Kershaw revealed that she decided to get in shape during the pandemic. She says that she is a lot more disciplined than she was before. "I’ve held myself accountable and recognised my bad habits and showed myself the discipline I needed. I’m getting mentally and physically stronger everyday and have the best people in my life supporting me all the way."

4. She Swims

Kershaw loves to go to the beach or the pool. She loves to swim and has posted several photos of herself in the water on Instagram. She posted this photo of herself floating on an inner tube in her Ibiza’s hotel pool. Kershaw captioned the photo, “Water baby.”

5. She Paddleboards

While on vacation in Thailand, Kershaw did some paddleboarding. She posted this series of photos of herself on the board on Instagram. In them, she is seen balancing on the board and wiping out into the water. Kershaw captioned the post, “Expectation vs reality.”

Vicky Pattison, star of Geordie Shore, Ex on the Beach and Judge Geordie, has never not been outspoken. Sharing pictures of her weight loss today, she doesn’t disappoint, using them as chance to stick up for women everywhere, and show the reality of what losing pounds looks like. How does she stay so fit and so strong, and what was her message? Read on to see 5 ways Vicky Pattison stays in shape 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!

1. This is How She Lost the Weight

“So I've recently lost abit of weight- it's not quite the overnight miracle everyone on social media seems to think it is- it's been happening gradually over the last year through an amalgamation of things & much to everyone's disappointment I'm sure- there's no great big secret to how I did it. I got my contraceptive out my arm after 15years which had a huge impact on my body & also I got the worlds most energetic Pup- who we love DEARLY but needs to be walked between 2-3 hours daily 😂 So there you have it, I'm sorry I can't flog you a transformative pill or workout but you're all lush as you are anyway so please stop being so hard on yourselves ♥️,” she captioned the photos.

2. She is an Advocate for Women

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“Although most people have been really kind about my new bod- there have been quite a lot of nasty comments with people even going as far to say they only liked me before when I was, in their words, an advocate for curvy women,” she wrote. “Listen, I am an advocate for WOMEN full stop. Whatever your shape, whatever your size- & the only reason I started doing my 'Instas versus reality' in the 1st place was to show everyone that we are all capable of taking a good picture for the gram- & we shouldn't be comparing our beautiful bodies to anyone else's- especially not someone else's carefully curated Social media ones.”

3. She Says There’s a Difference Between Posed vs. More Relaxed

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“If I want to stretch up, put my hands behind my head & suck my tummy in- The end result is going to be this first pic. However if I relax, allow gravity to do its thing & stop trying so hard.. my body moves (Spoiler alert, all bodies move & I quite like my squishy tummy- it's where my pizza lives 😂) the end result is more like this second one,” she explained of the photos. “These posts were only ever meant to encourage all of us to stop beating ourselves up or comparing our bodies to the super posed & unrealistic ones on social. It's ok to want posed pics or more relaxed ones- to let it all hang out or want to go balls to the wall.”

4. She Says It’s Not OK to Tear Women Down

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“The only thing that isn't ok is telling another woman how YOU think she should look. Instead of tearing other women down, we should be building each other up... We're all beautiful in our own unique way & trust me, we're all capable of getting a sick pic for Insta 😂” she concluded.

5. She Sets Goals, and You Can, Too

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“I write out my goals for the week as well as how I plan to achieve them,” Pattison has said. “Eating healthier sounds like a good idea. But what does it really mean? Aim for specific goals instead, such as eliminating soda, eating five servings of vegetables a day or limiting your daily sugar intake to 30 grams of added sugar,” says the Mayo Clinic. “Losing 10 pounds a week sounds great. But it's an impossible goal that likely will leave you discouraged — and more likely to give up on your efforts. Choosing realistic goals that you can meet will reinforce your efforts and keep you moving forward. Losing one pound per week is a realistic and sustainable goal.”