Gina Rodriguez On Letting Go Of The Fear Of Not Being Beautiful

Gina Rodriguez. Photo by Jim Smeal/REX/Shutterstock (9428441ac)

Jane The Virgin‘s Gina Rodriguez has revealed how she finally learnt to love her body.

The pressure for young women, especially women in the limelight, to look beautiful has always been vast. Even women we deem to be incredibly beautiful admit that the pressure causes them to struggle with their self-confidence and body image.

Gina Rodriguez is another female celebrity who has decided to fight back against the pressure and embrace self-love. Speaking with Cosmopolitan, she reminds us that “it’s not about the picture”, it’s about something more important.

She recalls:  “I remember my first cover shoot. I heard them ­whispering, ‘When she stands like that, it doesn’t look good.’ Those comments feel like knives from across the room,” she says. “I can hear you! And who f***ing cares if it doesn’t look attractive? This is the way I look when I sit. My s**t folds!”

When she realised this, Rodriguez says she let go of the fear of not being beautiful and instead celebrated how far she has come.

“I finally love my body,” she says. “I let go of the anxiety and the fear of not looking beautiful. Because it’s not about the picture. It’s about the fact that I stand on this cover with every Latina who wished she saw herself reflected. Because it’s not my face—it’s the 55-million-plus girls who are like, ‘Holy s**t! We belong.’”

So next time you are fed up with the pressure society puts on us to look beautiful, fight back and love yourself harder than ever before.

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