14 DAY TRIAL // Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker was not always happy with her body. The star, who will be making her acting debut in Adam Sandler’s “Just Go With It,” is now in the latest issue of Self magazine, talking diet, health and beauty.
For instance, she reveals that even she, the woman most men fantasize about, didn’t always like her body. First, she was too skinny and then she was too curvy – the grass is greener on the other side, she says.
Now, she’s found balance: she eats to be healthy and has learned to love and accept herself as she is, she isn’t trying to change herself to be like other models.
Of course, it wasn’t always like that: before she learned this important lesson, Brooklyn did all sorts of crazy diets and juice cleanses because the pressure was huge for her to be as skinny as her fellow models.
“When I moved to New York, I was always with other aspiring models. There were bingers and purgers, and everyone watched each other eat. It freaked me out,” Brooklyn says of the modeling world.
Since everyone around her was doing it, she too tried to lose weight the fast way – but the result was the exact opposite of what she was expecting.
“I did juice fasts and crazy diets and ended up gaining weight. My father did an intervention and got me to stop obsessing about everyone else and wrecking my body,” the star reveals.
“Eating is more fulfilling if you talk about what you should eat rather than what you shouldn’t,” Brooklyn says of the number one rule by which she’s guiding her life right now.
In the end, it’s all a matter of perspective.
“Instead of worrying about what foods might have too much fat or sugar, think, ‘Oh, I should eat these blueberries for the antioxidants’,” she says.
“The grass is always greener. The best advice my mother gave me was to accept everyone for who they are, and you have to do that for yourself, as well,” Brooklyn says of what she is taking from her experience as a model so far.