British actress Emma Watson has opened up on her own weight struggle. She says that as she has matured her body has changed sizes and shape, but now she is coming to terms with it and realizes her body wasn’t meant to look like a “doll”. She also says that who she is as a person is so much more important than how her body looks and she’s at a place where she isn’t worrying about her figure as much anymore:
“I’ve accepted my body shape more as I’ve got older. I went through a stage of wanting to have that straight-up-and-down model look, but I have curves and hips, and in the end you have to accept yourself as you are. My weight has fluctuated between a size 6 and a 10. When you’re growing, your body is still figuring itself out and it takes a while to settle down. I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.”
Emma also offers up some advice to girls – she says that women can often put so much pressure on themselves to look good and that it often ends up in fights and tears – she believes everyone needs to stop putting each other down because it shatters our confidence and isn’t needed:
“It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we’re human beings and our bodies have a function. We say that the pressure is coming from men but actually it’s from each other. I think women feel so much pressure these days and it can turn us against each other. But we really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.”
