Soms zit een bepaald talent diepgeworteld in de familie. Zo ook bij de familie Hadid . Joann van den Herik, het Nederlandse nichtje van Bella en Gigi Hadid, is model voor de lingerielijn van het Britse warenhuis Debenhams. Bijzonder is dat de foto's niet bewerkt zijn.
Joann heeft al wel vaker model gestaan, maar deze klus is extra speciaal voor de 19-jarige uit Brabant. Ze vindt het erg belangrijk om een positief lichaamsbeeld te promoten en het constante bekritiseren van jezelf en anderen tegen te gaan. Dat is ook precies de reden waarom ze geen Photoshop of andere editing programma's aan haar foto's laat komen. Boodschap: je bent perfect zoals je bent!
Joann: "If you‘re lucky enough to be different from everyone else, don‘t change". Bekijk twee foto's van de Debenham lingeriecampagne hieronder.
What I love most about this picture, is that you can actually see a fatroll on the side. If you showed me this picture 1 year ago, I probably would’ve cried only about the idea of posting it. You see, this picture shows a real body. MY real body. When people lay in this position, they may have some rolls. So? Does it make us less beautiful? Does it ruin the picture? No. So why let it ruin your life? With my body and my photos I want to show you guys that it doesn’t matter what kind of body you have. EVERY BODY IS BEAUTIFUL. And everybody can wear whatever they want. Wear that tight dress, even if you have fatrolls in it. My insecurities always stopped me from wearing things I like, so please, maybe after seeing this picture, or some pictures of @iskra @sonnyturner___ @theashleygraham @barbienox , embrace your curves and don’t let your insecurities stop YOU from wearing whatever you want. You deserve to love yourself. Every ❗️Part ❗️ Of ❗️You ❗️Is❗️ Beautiful, even the ones you’re insecure about. Tell yourself you love yourself every day. Focus on the things that make you happy, make you special. The things that make you insecure? Try to look at them in a different way. For example what I’m doing in this post with my fatrolls. Ask yourself, why do I think my hips are ugly? Why don’t I like my belly? Why do I want to have thin legs? Because society and the media tells you? Don’t give them a chance to make feel negative or insecure! The most powerful weapon you have, is your mind, so try to have a positive mindset a little more every day. It’ll work wonders. 🙌🏼❤️ #LoveYourCurves #BeautyBeyondSize
Een bericht gedeeld door Joann (@joannvdherik) op 8 Feb 2018 om 3:02 (PST)
Joann laat op haar Instagramaccount niet alleen de 'perfecte' foto's zien. Ze probeert een realistischer beeld te creëren door ook de beelden te plaatsen waar ze minder blij mee is. Haar volgers staan volledig achter haar en laten in de reacties weten dat ze hoe dan ook prachtig is. En terecht!
Throwback to my vacation in Lisbon last summer 💛 It's amazing to see this picture now and notice how much I've been working on my mindset and how much I've grown. When these pictures were taken I noticed a lot of flaws, which is why I didn't post them. I wanted to hide them and seem "perfect" instead of embracing it as a part of me. I have fatrolls, on my hip, and I wanted to edit it and hide it but why? I mean, doesn't everyone has fatrolls? YES EVERYONE HAS THEM. Especially when we're wearing something really tight or when we're sitting. I rock this crop top and I rock that swimsuit, and I rock those fatrolls 😇 I thought my chin in the second picture looked very weird too, I called it a "double chin". Now I'm like "BITCH WHAT DOUBLE CHIN". I don't have a double chin at all so I don't get why I thought I saw one! Also, my belly got sunburned 🤦🏻♀️ and I have a really obvious tanline, both aren't really the "ideal of beauty", again I tried to edit it but I think photoshopping your body on pictures is stupid and unnessacary since everyone has flaws and we gotta show them in order to make everyone feel confident 💁🏻 And tbh.... everyone has tanlines too! And I think almost everyone got sunburnt maybe one time in their lives!!!! So why did I feel so insecure about it? Why did I want to hide it? I think we spend so much time trying to be "perfect" instead of accepting ourselves and loving who we are. We see so many pictures of perfect people with their perfect body, their perfect tan, their life, that we try to be those people. WRONG! 🙅🏻 We're not those people and we're never gonna be those people, and eventhough they may seem perfect, they're not. Everybody has imperfections. We should try to embrace them instead of hiding them ❤️ #BodyPositive #LoveYourself #LoveYourBody #LoveYourCurves #Lisbon
Een bericht gedeeld door Joann (@joannvdherik) op 28 Jan 2018 om 12:04 (PST)
All my life I've been focused on my weight. "Fat" is used so often with women. I grew up thinking "fat" is the worst thing you could be called by someone. I thought "fat" was an insult. But calling someone fat, says more about the person who said it, than about yourself. You see, I HAVE fat, I'm not fat. Fat does not define me. I know what I eat, how much I exercise. I know that I'm a lot more than just my appearances. Sometimes I take flattering photos with make-up on (on the left) and sometimes I'm just not feeling posing and HATE make-up (on the right). Both is okay. Both bodies are OKAY. Most people would say picture two is an unflattering photo. But I love it. I love that you can see my imperfections, my fatrolls, my imperfect skin, my cellulite. Those are all my insecurities in one single picture. This is a big step for me because I'm still insecure and not 100% confident, but I want to show you guys that even people with many followers aren't perfect. I used to HATE every inch of my body. That mindset not only made me grumpy towards myself, but towards every one around me. It made me envious towards other women. I'm happy I realised that my body is great and that "perfect" doesn't exist. With this picture, I wanted to show every boy and girl out there, that YOUR BODY IS BEAUTIFUL. Your body is gorgeous, your body is unique, your body is yours. You can have fatrolls. You can have pimples. You can have stretchmarks. You can have everything you want. You can be whatever you want. Our stories and experiences make us who we are and that's the most amazing thing. Take that with you and embrace your body, embrace those curves! Make your insecurities your own, turn them into something positive, make them YOU! Don't hate your body until you lose weight or get the perfect body at the gym, do it the whole way, do it NOW! Loving yourself is greatest achievement of all ❤️ #LoveYourself #LoveYourBody #BodyPositive
Een bericht gedeeld door Joann (@joannvdherik) op 31 Jan 2018 om 11:10 (PST)
Het model zal binnenkort ook te zien zijn in het RTL-programma Curvy Supermodel. Joann is hard aan de weg aan het timmeren en dat is te zien ook. You go girl!
Beeld thumb: Bruno Press
