Julia Morris has no time for body shamers who've been making snide comments about her weight online.
The host of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, who stars on the cover of the February/March issue of Prevention magazine, said in a video on Instagram that she made a 'huge mistake' by looking up at what viewers were saying about the season and she had spotted several negative comments aimed at her physique.
"I've spotted plenty of lovely comments about my weight, thanks for those," she said.
"My advice for you is, I'd like to see you after 33 weeks of being locked inside your house - we all know I want to swear, but I'm keeping a lid on it.
"Note to self, stay away from the internet, I mean, just people being nasty for the sake of it. Like, do people even care about how fat I am? I'm 52 years of age, If I don't care, you shouldn't."
Julia went on to share a photograph of herself in her underwear on the set of the show (above), after stripping down to offer her clothes to shivering contestants after an ice tank challenge.
Seeing past the mirror
Julia admitted to Prevention that one of the things that made Melbourne’s strict 15-week lockdown last year tolerable was a steady diet of strawberry-chocolate bullets and said she had made her peace with her body after spending too long worrying about her shape.
“For years I thought that I could’ve been smaller or that, ‘Ohhhh, look at my stomach in that!’ Now, I feel that what is the point of verbally bashing myself?” she said. “And, if I’m at the halfway point, I’ve just spent half of my life being kind of mean to myself.
"So now I think, you know what? I’m alive and my body is still working and I feel pretty amazing. And that’s incredibly freeing. Now I can start to enjoy the next bit without a lot of the pressures of the younger days.
“I’ve made a very conscious effort through raising two girls to not talk about my thoughts about my body in front of them. And while their generation is going to have times of self-doubt, their body is not one of them. I feel a great sense of achievement over that.”
Julia says she purposely doesn’t talk about ‘body’, but only about how healthy the heart is. “I don’t really mind what size anybody is – what I care about is, is your heart going to last?” she says. “I don’t care about what your hips are doing. Some people have that super-lucky DNA where they have a fl at tummy as they get older, which is highly rare. But, for the rest of us, no matter how conscious you are with healthy food and exercise, the expression ‘middle-age spread’ is real. So what I try to focus on now is to keep that heart of mine healthy. And the rest, I’m going to dress around.”
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