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‘Whatever way you feel most comfortable is the best way for you to be.’
As two of the biggest female mixed martial arts fighters in the world, Ronda Rousey and Aisling Daly know all too well what it’s like to be body-shamed.
But now, they’re using their huge social media presence to make a stand.
“Any woman’s body type in the healthiest form is desirable,” says Rousey as part of #PowerShift, an 10-part series by The Huffington Post UK, hosted by Sophie Turner.
Daly adds: “I believe whatever way you feel most comfortable is the best way for you to be.”
Both Rousey and Daly say social media has had an impact on the way they see and present their bodies.
“We’re constantly under scrutiny,” Daly says.
“Whether it’s good or bad it’s still scrutiny...I don’t really want to be responding to ‘you look like a man with your big shoulders’ or ‘you look hot, I love a girl that could beat me up’. That’s not what that picture’s about.”
Rousey adds: “It’s really important for me to at least be able to represent my own body type in a desirable light, and that’s something that I didn’t see growing up.
“The kind of women I saw on the cover of magazines were a fraction of female body types.”
‘Whatever way you feel most comfortable is the best way for you to be.’
As two of the biggest female mixed martial arts fighters in the world, Ronda Rousey and Aisling Daly know all too well what it’s like to be body-shamed.
But now, they’re using their huge social media presence to make a stand.
“Any woman’s body type in the healthiest form is desirable,” says Rousey as part of #PowerShift, an 10-part series by The Huffington Post UK, hosted by Sophie Turner.
Daly adds: “I believe whatever way you feel most comfortable is the best way for you to be.”
Both Rousey and Daly say social media has had an impact on the way they see and present their bodies.
“We’re constantly under scrutiny,” Daly says.
“Whether it’s good or bad it’s still scrutiny...I don’t really want to be responding to ‘you look like a man with your big shoulders’ or ‘you look hot, I love a girl that could beat me up’. That’s not what that picture’s about.”
Rousey adds: “It’s really important for me to at least be able to represent my own body type in a desirable light, and that’s something that I didn’t see growing up.
“The kind of women I saw on the cover of magazines were a fraction of female body types.”