Alexa Lemieux is getting actual concerning the criticisms she’s confronted about her weight.
As followers probably will recall, the 27-year-old actuality star was a contestant on season three of Love Is Blind, throughout which she discovered love within the pods together with her now-husband Brennon Lemieux. Whereas many followers went wild for his or her candy love story on the present, she additionally obtained a ton of affection from folks for being the primary ever curvy contestant on the Netflix present and embracing her physique. Though Alexa is glad she helped many individuals really feel seen on the time, she additionally felt the viewers and present targeted and commented a lot on her weight although she shouldn’t be thought of “plus-sized.” She defined on the Betches’ Food plan Begins Tomorrow podcast on Sunday:
“I like a lot that I can signify a really regular sized determine. Folks act like I’m this huge human being. I’m a dimension eight to 10, like I’m under common in America.”
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For Alexa, she was primarily upset by the feedback she obtained praising Brennon for loving her “regardless of” how she regarded:
“The factor that I dislike essentially the most is that individuals say, ‘Brennon loves me, regardless of my physique.’ That sucks. Like what? No, he loves me and my physique. It was by no means a priority.”
Actually, she shared that she requested her hubby if he was “drawn to” her after they acquired engaged and noticed one another for the primary time. His response? Alexa revealed:
“He stated, ‘Hell yeah, I like that you just’re curvy. You look good.’”
Regardless of receiving Brennon’s help, the insurance coverage company proprietor confessed she was very anxious about receiving unfavourable feedback about her physique earlier than the season dropped final 12 months. She recalled opening up concerning the matter to her associate, saying:
“That is going to be an enormous deal for folks. Persons are not gonna like my physique. They’re gonna have a elementary subject with my physique. He was like, ‘I don’t perceive why are you, like, so nervous about it. And I’m prefer it’s gonna suck to have a bunch of individuals touch upon my physique. That sucks. Nobody’s gonna take a look at your physique and be like, ‘He eats this,’ however persons are gonna do this to me.”
Ugh! That’s very irritating.
Throughout the pods, although, Alexa was not even nervous about her bodily look at first. Nevertheless, that modified when somebody requested her if she was anxious about Brennon’s response earlier than their reveal:
“I can’t keep in mind precisely how they introduced it up…It was type of introduced up proper earlier than the reveal, like ‘Are you nervous how he’s going to react to your physique?’ I used to be like, ‘No…That wasn’t a priority, however it’s now.’ I didn’t actually give it some thought till that second.”
Terrible. She mustn’t have been made to really feel like she ought to have been involved about her physique within the second. Whereas Alexa was very physique optimistic on the present, she wasn’t at all times assured about her determine rising up:
“It’s undoubtedly one thing that took time. I don’t assume that everybody’s born with confidence in a single day and I undoubtedly nonetheless have days the place I hate myself and I feel that’s completely regular.”
She added:
“I’ve been actually skinny earlier than. After I went by way of an episode of being very, very, very depressed, I went right down to virtually a dimension 4. I used to be very skinny, and that was after I was my unhappiest self. I hated my life. I hated myself… Skinny doesn’t equal wholesome and that’s such a troublesome factor for folks to know.”
Say it louder for everybody!
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