Honey Ross says ‘I’ve been through body shaming hell but I now love my curves’

Honey Ross believes she has been on long journey to body positivity after ‘going through hell’ before embracing her size 18 curves.

The 23-year-old daughter of TV talk show host Jonathan Ross and screenwriter Jane Goldman has been on a mission of late to promote how to love your body and has spoken out about the self-loathing and unhappiness she has felt in the past.

It has been reported that she asked for a personal trainer for her 14th birthday as she tried to rescue her teenage years from trolls who would tear into her online.

Speaking to The Sun, Honey admitted that she “didn’t think I’d make it to being this happy young woman.”

She has revealed in the past week that her parents would put her on “absolutely toxic” diets as she grew up but has now said that she realises that they were looking to do this to try and keep the trolling at bay.

Unfortunately, Honey still felt she “hated myself. I hated my body.”

She added that the reason why she was on so many diets was because it “broke their hearts” for her parents to see her “full of self-loathing” and would support her by putting her on a diet.

Honey said that comments left about her on social media after photos had appeared of her at red carpet events with her parents, when she was as young as 12, had a big effect on her self-esteem.

She said that being a teenager had already left her feeling “insecure” and the cruel comments had given her “a real insight into a dark side of human nature.”

Honey said that this reinforced her “worst fears about how people thought I was hideous written down.”

It reinforced her obsession with her weight and it led to her keeping an “obsessive food diary” as she had sessions to overcome her feelings about her body.

By the time she was 17, Honey had turned to a low-carb keto diet but admitted that she got “such bad dysmorphia that I became convinced my friends wouldn’t be able to wrap their arms around me to hug me because I was so big.”

She started losing weight but still felt “quiet and miserable” especially when her “size six brunette” friends would complain about their own weight issues.

Honey said that her friends would say “I feel so fat and disgusting today” while she would be “standing there, actually fat.”

She continued to question this feeling saying: “What does that make me? I’d stand there thinking, ‘Oh my God, this is brutal’”.

Honey has now come out fighting and has been celebrating her body shape on social media and across the press and is now hoping that she can inspire others who felt like she did when she was a teenager.

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