Taryn Brumfitt

I was just talking about this recently, just this whole thing

Exercise is something that we have to do.

I think that's such a crime.

I think it's like moving our bodies every day is like the best part of our days, or it could be if we just reconsider our relationship with movement, that it's about how we feel as opposed to doing something because we want to look a particular way.

But, yes, I mean, pornography and how young people are feeling in their bodies and how they want to change their bodies, I just think we need to continue to say that that representation of what we see is unrealistic and it's not a true representation of who we all are.

I mean, I included a wall, we called it, you know, internally the wall of vulva in the Embrace film and I'll never forget that

In a cinema, one of the screenings I went to, a woman came up to me and she was, I don't know, I want to put her to about 75, 80 years of age.

And she was crying.

And I thought, my brain immediately went, she's going to talk to me about her grandchild that's got an eating disorder.

But instead, she said to me,

When I saw all of those images of the women's, she called it vaginas, even though they're vulvas, she said the vaginas, it was the first time in my life that I felt normal.

And she was crying and I was just like, oh, my gosh, you have carried shame around your body your entire life and it took you to see the diversity of all the shapes and sizes to make you feel better.

Like it actually broke my heart a little bit just to think of that was her relationship with her

body was that and it took seeing it to change it.

oh we're about to yeah we I love hiking too and and can I be in on that if you find a way just to just you've got my details sure well I yeah I'm what we're off to Europe this is the 10 year anniversary of Embrace and um bless my middle child I said to the kids like um we're going to these different countries what are some activities we can do with our bodies and uh

And crews suggested we go up Mount Brighthorn, which is, you know, 4,200 metres and it's crampons and it's ropes.

Wow.

beginner climb but it's still like it's a it's a mountain um so yeah so there's that and then we're um my charity uh which i'm the co-executive director for alongside dr zali yeager we've reached a million children each year since 2023 with evidence-based resources um for all the environments where they live learn and play

So we now have six pieces of research to show the efficacy of what we've developed.

And we're going to bring that to New Zealand, which we're really excited.