“I’m someone that hopefully a lot of girls can look up to and go, ‘OK, Chessie’s going through it so I can go through it with her’,” King says. “Once you’ve got your audience and they trust you, you need to really look after them. And I do I feel a huge responsibility, but I enjoy it because I know I’m helping at least one person every day.”
“For me it’s just about appreciating my body and all the amazing things it’s doing for me – breathing, regulating my temperature. People say body positivity is a trend, but I think it’s only going to carry on. Once you start talking to yourself kindly and appreciating your body, you never want to go back.”
“When you curate your feed to be positive and happy, to include creative, diverse people that you probably would never come across in real life, it’s amazing,” she says. “Take control of your social media and have a spring clean if it’s not making you feel good – Marie Kondo your life!”For far too long, the representation of women by both mainstream and social media has failed to reflect who we see in the mirror, and its impact on our mental health is worrying.promises to change that.
We will celebrate the so-called flaws of women to prove the normality in all of our bodies. We will run videos, photoshoots and honest accounts of our bodies and how they behave.