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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”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