Julianne Hough isn’t mincing phrases with regards to on-line scrutiny of her physique.
Over the weekend, the actor and “Dancing with the Stars” host shared a brief video of herself having fun with “Sunday Spa Day” and dancing in a bikini whereas within a sauna.
Although Hough’s video could have been meant in jest, it drew a blended response from followers, with some saying within the feedback that they had been “concerned” by her “weird” habits.
Others went a step additional by criticizing her look. “She needs to eat some milkshakes and cheeseburgers,” one individual wrote, whereas one other steered she “lighten up on the Ozempic.”
On Monday, Hough responded to the unfavorable commentary with a prolonged be aware geared toward her detractors.
“My body has never been healthier,” she wrote. “I was full of inflammation in my 20’s and had a marker for an auto immune that I addressed and committed to over a year and a half ago. I’ve frozen my eggs over the last few years which also shifts the body fluctuation. I’ve never been healthier or happier from the inside out.”
Hough additionally said that the video was geared toward showcasing her “playful” aspect, which she described because the “most authentic version.”
“For those of you genuinely concerned because this is unusual for you to see, I understand that what you don’t understand feels unfamiliar and sometimes scary,” she wrote. “I’m going to continue feeling safe within myself regardless of the outpouring of your comments, and have fun with life which can be really heavy and challenging.”
Hough concluded her be aware urging her followers to “be playful and laugh and enjoy the journey” quite than “taking everything so seriously.”
“Sending love, light and playful energy your way,” she wrote.
Hough additionally supplied a extra pointed response to these urging her to “eat cheeseburgers.”
“This was on Sept. 17th the premiere date of DWTS!” she wrote within the caption of a video shared to her Instagram tales that confirmed her taking a chunk out of a do-it-yourself burger.
Hough ― who will return to the large display subsequent 12 months alongside Christian Bale and Peter Sarsgaard within the science fiction movie, “The Bride!” ― has been candid concerning the challenges of sustaining a optimistic outlook on her physique as a public determine.
“I post pictures of what I’m wearing or my hair from ‘Dancing with the Stars’ every week, and one person says I look too skinny, and then one person down below says I look pregnant,” she advised Individuals in 2016. “I’m like, how does that work? Are you looking at the same picture? At the end of the day, it is what it is.”
In an interview with Redbook revealed the next 12 months, Hough defined how she realized to take issues a bit much less critically when it got here to such criticisms.
“I was very self-accepting growing up, then something switched in middle school,” she mentioned on the time. “I would compare myself to everyone…and later I did a film where I basically was told I was fat every day, yet I was the skinniest I’d ever been. Now, when I’m self-conscious, I’ll do something completely crazy or goofy to get out of my own head—something fun that reminds me of the freedom I felt as a kid before all that happened.”
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