Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter Emily has shared an inspirational post on Instagram after a difficult shopping trip.
The 27-year-old activist has shared some raw and honest words alongside a highly relatable snap, in a bid to promote self-love, while educating the next generation.
Posting a carousel of snaps onto the social media platform, she revealed that in the first photo she’d managed to get her earring caught, in the second snap she was unable to get the garment to cover her top half and the third she explained how she had ‘unresolvable beef’ with her ribcage.
She wrote: “This would at one point have been enough to ruin my day. Certainly enough that I’d have given up any attempts at finding a dress.
“And it was actually a really big moment for me today to realise, when I didn’t feel the urge to cry or flee the shop, how far I have come with my body image- I always found shop changing rooms to be really really hard.
(Image: Emily Clarkson /Instagram)
“So many of my unhappiest memories have been within three walls and a curtain and I was, throughout my teenage years, incapable of leaving a shop without crying.
“Even as I got past that, made some sort of steps with this self love stuff, the feelings, still, were far from positive and I’d emerge back out into the bright streets feeling… wrong, somehow… super “aware” of myself. Too big, basically.
(Image: Emily Clarkson /Instagram)
“I realised today I just felt apathy. Neutrality. Peace. Lol this dress is stuck. Oop this is gonna be a squeeze and nope that ain’t going up. Ok next dress please. Which is a privilege of course, that I have a body type that enables me to ask for another size or even to have a number of options. I realise this whole post is coming from a straight size woman who has never had to understand the struggle of many other people when it comes to shopping.
“So I don’t share this as a poor me, or even a lucky me. This is just an acknowledgment of real personal progress. I have (thanks in part to the amazing women I follow on here) forged a peace with myself that I didn’t think possible.”
She continued: “Just because the dress isn’t right, it doesn’t mean the body is wrong. It just means… the dress isn’t right. We put so much onus on the numbers. We give so much power to the dresses. As if they have anything to do with our worth as a human. Society, diet culture and the “size zero” era we grew up in meant that we equate being “too big” for the dress with meaning that we are too big for the world. Which is… madness. Madness. The dress is a dress. And you? You are a miracle.”
(Image: em_clarkson/Instagram)
Fans, friends, followers and fellow activists flocked to the comments section to praise Emily’s honesty.
One said: “Yes to real, personal progress.”
Another penned: “F**ing yes! It’s been a long time since I tried a dress on in a changing room (thanks covid) but definitely manifesting this energy next time I do.”
A third wrote: “The 15 year old me really needed to hear that!”
While a fourth admitted: “Can’t wait for the day I don’t cry in changing rooms.”
(Image: Instagram/ @em_clarkson)
This comes as the 27-year-old activist took part in a viral nude catwalk.
Emily stripped off for the day when she became a canvas for Sophie Tea’s artwork as she wore nothing but boob tape and a tiny pair of knickers before being covered in paint.
The blonde bombshell shared the piece of art the other week following the campaign shoot to help empower those who feel self-conscious about their bodies and show them how they can let go of their insecurities.
The star admitted that as someone who also struggled with her appearance, she found the whole experience freeing as she stepped outside of her “comfort zone” in the bare-all photoshoot.
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