There's something really liberating about feeling great in what you work out in because when you feel great in the gym, then you are just going to do a better job. You'll feel more comfortable, which will allow you to push your limits.
I do MMA so I will train for whatever it is. Recently I did jujitsu and strength training, but other days I will do kickboxing, muay thai. It's just a matter of what I have on the schedule. Some days I just do cardio for an hour. I am not a yoga person. Whatever I do, it has to be extreme. I like higher-intensity workouts.
I grew up in the South where there's discrimination, and when I witnessed the judgment around me, I always thought someone needs to stick up for not just the LGBT community but any outsider, anybody that wasn't the mold in Texas.
I'm sharing my experience with my body with my fans, and that's why they relate to me so much.
I don't have a six-pack. Maybe I don't even want a six-pack. It doesn't sound very appealing.
Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.
When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.
I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it.
Focusing on food and exercise changed my life.
Being surrounded by supermodels' bodies was triggering to me.
That person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today.
If everybody in the world saw a therapist, we would have a better world.
I don't like to go out to clubs, because I find myself seeing remnants of drugs in the bathroom.
You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself.
You don't have to be a drug addict to care for your mind.
I like to focus on what I'm doing now, which is giving back. I've done interventions with people I've been close to.
Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.
I feel healthy, I feel happy.
I have felt uncomfortable having people say, "You're my idol," because I want them to idolize God. I want them to idolize somebody that's done a lot.
I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.
I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.
When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions.
I don't see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body. It's kind of this false image of what people should look like. And what they should be like, and it's not real.
I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.
I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.
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