Taryn Brumfitt

Yeah, I think for such a long time we normalised how we felt about our bodies and we carried these stories, which were really traumatic for lots of us, for a very long time.

And I think the photograph that went viral that sort of started this whole movement was an invitation and an opportunity for people to share how they felt too and

And I think because of the nature of the photograph, and for those who are listening, it's a non-traditional before and after photo where I trained to get the perfect body after I hated my body for so many years.

And I actually entered a bodybuilding competition.

Never say never.

Because I don't know how I found myself on that stage and that ridiculous, you know, bikini and high heels, but I did.

I always joke that a part of the feminist in me died that day.

But anyway, never say never.

But getting to that body and having that body, it was just it took too much obsession, too much time.

I punished my body to look a particular way.

And I realised that health is not just physical, it's mental, it's spiritual, it's emotional.

And actually, how I look actually doesn't make me happy.

And for me to have that particular body was not sustainable.

So the before and after photograph is me before on stage in the traditional perfect bikini body.

And then after in my body as it is now, the rolls, the cellulite, the stretch marks, etc.,

It just broke people's brains that a woman could feel comfortable in her body as that as an after photograph.

So, yeah, it was a real moment in time.

It's hard to imagine it's, you know, just over 13 years ago now that that all sort of happened and a lot has happened since, I have to say.

But what a great time for so many people to go, oh,

yeah, I feel like this.