Malin Andersson posed in her underwear on Thursday as she candidly opened up about being her “own worst critic” in a body-positive Instagram post.
The former Love Island star, 31, wore a plum lace underwear set as the camera panned around her body as she stood in front of a mirror.
Billie Eilish’s song What Was I Made For? played in the background of the video, while Malin opened up about her body image in an accompanying caption.
She spoke about feeling ‘pressured’ around alcohol and food around Christmas, as she bravely discussed her struggle with an eating disorder.
Malin wrote, “I can be my own worst critic. Especially my inner voice. The one who says I’m not good enough. That the spots on my body are not attractive.
Powerful: Malin Andersson posed in her underwear as she candidly opened up about being her ‘own worst critic’ in a body-positive Instagram post on Thursday
Honest: Billie Eilish’s song What Was I Made For? played in the background of the video, while Malin opened up about her body image in an accompanying caption
‘But I know now that I have to say the opposite of what I want to say when I look in the mirror, because I am so much more than that. I embody love.
‘With Christmas coming up we have a strange amount of pressure on alcohol and food.
‘For those who struggle with eating disorders, especially around this time of year when we should be having fun and creating special memories, this can be damaged by the obsession with food and restriction. And we end up suffering in silence in our heads when the people around us don’t ‘I don’t know.
‘What’s your favorite affirmation for loving the skin you’re in?
“Let’s make some beautiful words in the comments below so we can see it and believe it.”
Malin ended the emotional caption with an emoji of two hands forming a heart.
Her nearly 700,000 followers flooded her comments with support and stories of their own as they praised her for her candid post.
One wrote: ‘Our bodies are our temples, they carry us around and they hold our hearts in our chests ‘.
Another said: ‘I had four kids, my body is definitely different before and after, but I wouldn’t change a thing! My body miraculously carried four… FOUR lives of other people!!!’
Candid: The former Love Island star, 31, wore a plum lace underwear set as the camera panned around her body as she stood in front of a mirror
Opening: She spoke about feeling ‘pressured’ around alcohol and food around Christmas, as she courageously discussed her struggle with an eating disorder
‘My body gave life!!! Gives me life every day. How lucky am I!’
Another said: ‘I used to think this when I was slim. I look back now at almost 50 and I would do anything to look the way I did 10/15 years ago. And then I wasn’t happy
‘We so quickly forget what our body has been through. We’re pretty incredible people ‘
A final fan wrote: ‘You should be so proud of your body. “I’d love to be like that, but with an 11 pound baby he just won’t leave me.”
To which Malin replied: ’11 pound baby (congratulations) but YOU carried them and brought them into the world, your body is magical’
The influencer has been open about her past struggles with eating disorders, sharing a photo of herself at age 18, when she weighed just twenty-five pounds.
She writes about the photo: ‘I came across this when I was looking through my old photos. In this photo I am 18, weigh about 8 stone and have not eaten. That pretty much sums it up.
“As you can see, I’m dead behind my eyes, and the only joy that came my way was my growling stomach, that control over the pounds that dropped every day.
Tough times: ‘For those struggling with eating disorders, especially around this time of year when we should be having fun and creating special memories, this can become damaging…’
Community: Malin’s nearly 700,000 followers flooded her comments with support and stories of their own while praising her for her honesty
“These were the days when I wanted to start modeling and got lost in beauty pageants. These were also the days when Malin no longer existed and my soul did not shine.
“You see, I’ve talked about my eating disorders, laxative abuse, calorie counting, etc., but the binge eating I felt was the worst for me. It was a vicious circle of:
“Malin goes shopping, buys a bunch of junk food that she’s been depriving herself of, sneaks into her bedroom, stuffs her face until she feels sick and then goes straight to the toilet to throw it up and get it out of her system.
Malin then weighs herself to make sure everything is okay. She then feels guilt, shame and lack of awareness of the life around her.
‘Malin feels depressed, goes to sleep hungry and wakes up wanting to do it all again. This. Used to be. Mine. To live.’
In August this year, Malin was rushed to hospital due to a flare-up of her irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
She said: ‘I developed IBS in my teens, after struggling with my self-image I abused laxatives to clear my body.
‘I remember waking up every day with terrible cramps and having to go to the toilet just to ‘look skinny and feel skinnier.’
Candid: Malin previously opened up about her six-year battle with an eating disorder, hoping to help others with similar struggles see their worth
‘Back in hospital’: Malin suffered ‘so much’ stomach pain that she was forced to the emergency room in August due to an IBS flare-up
Malin has been focusing on her health and “internal healing” in 2023, after welcoming her daughter Xaya in January 2022.
Her first daughter Consy was born seven weeks prematurely in December 2018 and was treated at London’s Great Ormond Street hospital, but sadly died on January 22, 2019.
Malin previously revealed the brutal trolls she received on Instagram following her weight loss.
The former Love Island star recalled that she has ‘never known anything like this’ since making a healthy lifestyle change.
