‘My ex broke up with me after seeing me in bathers’

“It’s so interesting because people really do hit you right where it hurts,” the mum of three mentioned throughout a three-minute confessional on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Today present within the US.

“I had a boyfriend in seventh grade who broke up with me after we went swimming together,” she continued, “after he saw me in a bathing suit”.

The former first daughter, 41, wished for example the severity of physique shaming and the long-term affect it will probably have on one’s psyche.

“I feel like even sometimes now when I feel great — I have three kids, three C-sections, I feel really in my body and I think of it as a beautiful thing — I’ll walk in a pool and have a moment,” she mentioned.

Bush Hager — who shares daughters Mila, 9, and Poppy, 7, and son Hal, 3, with husband Henry Hager — added that the ache sustained from that second has impressed her to boost her youngsters to be “loving” human beings.

“All we want is loving children. We don’t need the star kid, the this, the that. We want kids that are kind,” she mentioned of her method to parenting.

“The way you do that is model it.”

Bush Hager’s remarks got here throughout a dialogue with Hoda Kotb, throughout which the co-hosts shared their ideas on Ariana Grande addressing latest feedback made about her physique.

The 29-year-old pop star, who hardly ever posts private messages on social media, slammed web trolls who claimed she is “too thin” and unhealthy in a now-viral TikTok video on Tuesday.

“The body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body,” Grande defined partially.

“I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly.”

The singer elaborated, “[I was] at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy, but that in fact wasn’t my healthy.”

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