Welcome to Health Unwrapped, in conversation with Vicky Pattinson about her about her beauty regime, body positivity and her experience of being in the public eye for over a decade, riding the highs and the lows of celebrity.
What we discussed:
- Her realisation on the impact her job has in defining her as a person and how the pandemic has been a real learning curve.
- The importance of realising the small things as well as acknowledging the down days and how whilst she missed the fancy showbiz lifestyle, what she missed most was her family.
- Her and Ercan’s experience having Covid- the sheer exhaustion of how the virus affected them was a real shock as they were in bed for a good two weeks.
- How her sense of self has changed over the year.
- How her 30’s have been a significant time of self acceptance.
- How and why in her 20’s she was perceived to be really angry
- The difficult side of reality TV in terms of the restrictions on her personal life.
- How as you get older you feel less need to be what everyone else wants you to be.
- How she feels the public perception of beauty has changed.
- How we should all strive to accept images of all body types.
- How beauty starts from within.
- The importance of sleep.
- What advice she’d give her 23-year-old self and how she really wasn’t given much guidance in the early days.
- The explosion of reality TV and social media.
- How she feels about parents having to navigate their children’s exposure to social media.
- How she feels about the influence of social media.
- How social media helped her continue to make an income during the pandemic.
- Why she feels trolls should be named and shamed - how she is getting better at dealing with them.
- How she embraced the ‘stay at home’ clothes trend during the lockdown and enjoyed not having the pressures of having to look good… at least for a while.
- How she is naturally lazy and how her and Ercan have been training for their PT certification and how it’s helped their mental health.
- How Ercan helped her feel more motivated to train.
- How exercise is the most under utilised anti-depressant on the planet.
- How she loves a life hack - so taking her supplements is something she is all over.
- How her doctor told her about the amount that collagen in your skin drops after 30.
- How healthy her hair and nails are, especially having gone from brunette to blonde
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