PICS: Roz Purcell opens up with powerful post about body positivity

By | March 4, 2019

Roz Purcell has shared an important post at the end of Eating Disorder Awareness week.

Purcell, who won Miss Universe Ireland in 2010, has an impressive 256,000 followers on Instagram, and always gets plenty of reaction to anything she posts to her page.

Like any prominent influencer, Purcell has her fair share of trolls, who will pick out any perceived flaws they can in her photos, be they with Roz herself, something else in the photo, or the caption she has attached to it.

Previously, she smacked down one of those trolls in quality fashion.

However, yesterday, she used her broad influence to talk about ED Awareness week, attached with a picture of her former self.

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”I hadn’t really planned on putting anything up,it feels like another lifetime & even though I’ve spoken about my food and body struggles on here in the past it never gets any easier.

”I feel sad looking back, I wasted so many years putting myself down, missing opportunities and worst of all not being me around my friends and family.( sorry ❤️) I know I was miserable.

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Happy Friday guys! It’s coming to an end of ED ( eating disorder) awareness week. I hadn’t really planned on putting anything up,it feels like another lifetime & even though I’ve spoken about my food and body struggles on here in the past it never gets any easier.. I feel sad looking back, I wasted so many years putting myself down, missing opportunities and worst of all not being me around my friends and family.( sorry ❤️) I know I was miserable. The girl on the left looked at her body as something that was purely for show never once did I think how well my body held all my organs in place or was in anyway grateful for my health. I resented it, I punished it, binged, threw up, purged, on repeat, while pretending everything was fine. I used to always just think this was me, this was just how I would always be towards my body and food……but thankfully that’s just not true. I get loads of messages after I post about this subject asking what helped me. But to be honest everyones journey will be different and for me it was a handful of things that all seemed to happen in one year, along with reaching out for help through therapy it made me realise how lucky I was and how important it was for me to change and start being me again. There’s so many people & organisations to reach out to like @bodywhys . And I hope this week has brought some awareness and help to those who need it. I wish I could go back and talk to my younger self sometimes, but I can’t & I guess that’s why it’s good to talk about it now so maybe even one person will go ask for help❤️ #edawareness #eatingdisorderawarenessweek

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”The girl on the left looked at her body as something that was purely for show never once did I think how well my body held all my organs in place or was in anyway grateful for my health.

”I resented it, I punished it, binged, threw up, purged, on repeat, while pretending everything was fine.

”I used to always just think this was me, this was just how I would always be towards my body and food. Thankfully that’s just not true.

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There’s so many people & organisations to reach out to like @bodywhys . And I hope this week has brought some awareness and help to those who need it. I wish I could go back and talk to my younger self sometimes, but I can’t & I guess that’s why it’s good to talk about it now so maybe even one person will go ask for help

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