‘Are we supposed to hope our body type will be the next fad?’: Constance Hall posts naked selfie after someone said her ‘fat rolls were disgusting’
- Mummy blogger said she was recently told her weight ‘had become an issue’
- Constance, 33, was upset but decided not to feel poorly because of a troll
- She took the nude selfie to send to her boyfriend, then posted it on Instagram
- The mum-of-four has since received more than 4,000 likes for the picture
By Anneta Konstantinides and Cindy Tran for Daily Mail Australia
Published: 07:24 BST, 15 September 2017 | Updated: 10:54 BST, 15 September 2017
Constance Hall is taking a stand against her trolls.
The Perth mummy blogger posted a nude picture of herself on Instagram after she was recently fat-shamed.
‘I was told that my weight had become an issue and my fat rolls were disgusting,’ Constance wrote.
Constance said that at first, she was upset, but then she started to wonder what exactly a fat roll even was.
‘Fat doesn’t roll around on our body,’ she said. ‘It grows in lumps and we are constantly being told where those lumps should reside.’
‘For years we needed slim waists and big breasts, then we were expected to be stick figures, then we were told fat is good if it’s in the right place, tits, a**, thighs.’
‘Are we supposed to change or hope that our body type will be the next fad?’
Constance, 33, said she would refuse to think poorly of her body because of what someone else thought.
‘Everyone’s body is unique, mine is not your cup of tea but it is the only one I have, so it’s time to make it mine,’ she wrote.
‘I refuse to look back when I’m 70 and feel like I let some f**khead determine how I felt about this glorious body.’
Constance said she took the naked selfie, which has received more than 4,300 likes, for her boyfriend and herself.
‘I sent it to my boyfriend, reminded him of how lucky he is to have this soft unique woman by his side, and got the f**k over it.’
‘You’ll only ever be too much in the eyes of those who believe they are not enough,’ she concluded.
The mummy blogger recently took to her social media to also discuss growing up with dyslexia, and how one teacher even called her dumb in front of the class.
‘My teacher made me stand up in front of the class and read her the answer to the two last questions of our social studies homework,’ she recalled.
‘I didn’t know them, she screamed “of course you don’t, this whole class knows how dumb you are.”‘
Reflecting back on her struggles, the now mother-of-four said the signs started to show when she was in Year Two.
‘I hid my school reading from my mum for a whole year, partly because I was behind and partly because I was lazy,’ she said. ‘Nobody ever found out that I never did any homework.’
Opening up on Facebook, Constance revealed the heartbreaking criticisms she overheard about her as a schoolgirl.
‘In Year 7 my best friend overheard my music teacher telling my teacher that I was talented. My teacher responded that I will fail and said “just watch she always does”‘, she recalled.
‘It wasn’t until my twenties that I couldn’t read a number straight from a piece of paper without f***ing it up that I was informed that I had dyslexia.’
‘I wrote, I traveled and wrote, fell in and out of love and wrote, had babies and wrote. My writing was rejected by every publishing company in the country, still I wrote.’
At the age of 28, Constance decided to apply to university to study psychology. After she sat the entrance exam, she was sure she would fail.
‘A few months later I received a letter in the mail stating that I was in the top 92 per cent in the country,’ she wrote.
But after being accepted into one of the best universities in Australia, Constance said she ended up quitting because she struggled to learn.
‘I had two kids and I found it incredibly hard. I couldn’t even learn the online library logins or how to reference an essay,’ she said.
‘So I quit and continued to write.’
Against all odds, Constance went on to lead a fulfilling career after becoming a best-selling author for her book ‘Like a Queen’.
The popular writer has since launched her own clothing range, produced her on a radio show and has even funded two safe houses in Kenya.
‘When you love something, it becomes a part of you, you don’t stop. Even if you can’t spell,’ Constance said.
‘This is why I celebrate my kids academic achievements but never worry about their failures.’
By sharing her story, Constance wants young people living with dyslexia to draw hope from her experiences.
‘Because I am who I am and if there are any other “dumb” kids who can’t spell or read or even learn how to use a f***ing PC I want them to see me in them,’ she said.
‘Because there are so many different definitions of smart. Nobody believed I could do it. So I did it.’