{"id":28716,"date":"2019-08-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1064106"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:00:00","slug":"this-models-story-of-fluctuating-from-size-00-to-10-will-inspire-body-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/this-models-story-of-fluctuating-from-size-00-to-10-will-inspire-body-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"This Model’s Story of Fluctuating From Size 00 to 10 Will Inspire Body Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emily DiDonato<\/strong> is loving the skin she’s in. <\/p>\n

The 28-year-old model opened up about her “road to self-love and body positivity” in a candid YouTube video on Sunday.<\/p>\n

During the video, DiDonato admitted there were moments in her life when she was “very unhealthy” and “went to extreme measures to look a certain way.”<\/p>\n

DiDonato moved to New York to pursue modeling at age 18. After meeting with agencies, she was consistently told she was “too curvy,” “too big” “too athletic” or “too commercial.” <\/p>\n

“It was a bummer,” she said. “I was kind of like \u2018What do I need to do to succeed? To me, to be successful, it was to be thin. So, I was like \u2018I’m going to do whatever it takes.’ And I did.”<\/p>\n

DiDonato started eating “as little as possible,” over-exercising and becoming “obsessed” with what she was putting in her body. <\/p>\n

“I went, I think, from, like, 140 pounds to 118 pounds, which is very, very small for my frame,” she said. “I’m like 150 pounds now and feel great about it, but then that was very small for me.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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After putting an “obscene amount” of pressure on herself, DiDonato became depressed.<\/p>\n

“I was lonely. I was homesick. I missed my friends. I didn’t know what I was doing in this big city. I didn’t know anyone. I didn’t even know how to make new friends because, like, making friends as an adult is actually very hard,” she recalled. “I was going to castings, and I still wasn’t getting great feedback.”<\/p>\n

Then, at one of her castings, she was approached by fellow model Julia Stegner<\/strong> and makeup artist Charlotte Willer<\/strong>. They took her aside and asked if she was OK. After hearing similar concerns from agencies and her family, DiDonato ended up “gaining all the weight back and then some.”<\/p>\n

“That ended up being a whole different struggle, I think, in itself,” she said. “I remember really not liking the way that I looked. When I gained the weight back, I felt really embarrassed. I really wanted to hide. I felt like I was failing all of these agencies and people who believed in me and wanted me to succeed. I just thought, I was fat. There’s no way that I’m going to succeed now.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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