Model and activist Honey Ross has detailed her journey to self-love after “going through hell” as a child which saw her live a life of misery.
Jonathan Ross’ 23-year-old daughter has been on a self-loving mission and recently addressed her body-shaming experiences.
It’s claimed that Honey asked dad Jonathan and mum Jane Goldman to hire a personal trainer for her 14th birthday in a bid to escape from online trolls during her teenage years.
In a candid chat with The Sun, the star revealed she didn’t think she would make it “to being this happy young woman.”
Honey revealed that she didn’t believe she would make it to being as happy as she is now (Image: Instagram)
Last week Honey told how her parents would put her on “absolutely toxic” diet plans but now realises that they were attempting to stop her becoming a victim of trolling.
“I think people would very much like to spin it that my parents were forcing me to do a diet. Of course, they weren’t. I hated myself. I hated my body.
“I remember saying, ‘I’m miserable. Can I go on a diet?’ And they facilitated that. I could see that it broke their hearts to see their daughter so full of self-loathing. So they said, ‘If that’s what you really want to do, we’ll support that’.”
The model openly discussed being placed on a diet aged 14 (Image: Instagram)
Honey, who revealed that she was a size 14 when she was aged 12, admitted to reading negative comments about her weight under photographs online.
“You’re so insecure already. You get a real insight into a dark side of human nature. This is a world in which people don’t care if you are a kid,” she said.
“That’s when I started to realise my body wasn’t one that was massively desired by society.”
Growing up in the public eye meant Honey was subjected to online abuse from a young age (Image: Getty Images)
In a heartbreaking admission, she recalled dealing with “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.”
Aged 13, Honey embarked on a Weight Watchers diet with mum Jane, who wrote the Kingsman film series.
Now, she is embracing her curves and is enjoying her life to the max.
“Because I’ve got a gut, apparently that’s a big deal. I am really attractive,” she said.
“I’m an attractive young woman who wants to enjoy my life and my body in the same way that my thin friends have always been allowed to.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
