1 of 7.3 billion. Coffee drinker. Cake eater. Dancer.
I am a 20 year old, second year student at Bournemouth University on the South Coast of England, living 132 miles from the home I grew up in, in Kent.
As well as many girls my age, worrying about diet and health is a big part of my life. I religiously follow hundreds of fitness and wellness bloggers on Instagram, only to dream of looking the way they do, whilst I sit in front of Jeremy Kyle in a dingy student house feeling sorry for myself. With this blog, I want to reach to those people my age who don’t have the time to wake up and go on a run every morning, and don’t have the money to spend on ridiculously priced protein shakes, and to tell them, we don’t need to feel bad about this. Since studying Communication and Media at Bournemouth, I have learnt a vast majority, including that what we see online, is definitely not always how it seems.
I want to learn if all the wellness bloggers that many of you may read, just as I do, are actually teaching us to love our bodies and love the skin we live in. This blog is not a bid to condemn all fitness bloggers, as I know they can teach us a lot. All bloggers are different, and they definitely work hard at what they do. But my aim is to focus on whether the message they send is always a positive one, and whether we should aspire to live as people we may not actually be.