Bachelor Nation alum Jade Roper is reflecting on the time she struggled with body dysmorphia.
“OK, body dysmorphia is so weird. I was going back through photos in my phone, and this popped up from three years ago. I remember missing an event because I thought I looked so terrible in this dress, that my body looked bad,” Roper, 39, wrote via her Instagram Story on Saturday, March 21.
She continued, “Now, I’m like huhhh, what did I see that was so terrible, I think I actually look kind of hot. I think as I’ve gotten older, even just three years, I have such a better relationship with my body though.”
Alongside the message, Roper shared a mirror selfie of her posing in a black gown with a thigh-high split. She gave a soft smile for the camera, styling her shoulder-length hair slightly tousled.
Roper has been candid about her various states of mental health through the years, sharing in 2021 that she struggled with depression after welcoming her and Tanner Tolbert’s second child. (Roper and Tolbert, who met on Bachelor in Paradise, are parents to daughter Emmy, 8, and sons Brooks, 6, and Reed, 5.)
“Some days I really struggle with what content to share on here. Someone messaged me yesterday saying that they were going to unfollow me because of all my complaining about motherhood since Reed was born, and that I need to be the person I was when it was just Emmy and Brooks,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “Fact is, I was fighting a dark depression for the first 6 month[s] after Brooks was born and no one would have known it. And fact is, I’m not that perceived person they spoke of anymore.”
Roper noted that she’s “learning as I go,” hoping to share the “imperfect moments” with her followers to spark a “human connection.”
“For anyone out there hanging on by a thread, needing to know they are loved and not failing; and, honestly for myself when I’m needing to hear a kind voice speak my truths to me. To remind me on the days where I can’t find the light, that it’s still there,” she wrote. “I want people to know you can carry both joy and grief together. That we can feel madly in love with our children, but also like we are carrying broken pieces of ourselves around. That you can wake up at 7 am with gratitude in your heart and still be crying by 8 am.”
Jade Roper got candid about how she’s holding up after suffering a miscarriage. “I’ve been ok,” Roper, 36, wrote via her Instagram story on Monday, October 16. “I recently told my manager that I’m tired of being in my sad girl era, and ready to feel better, but I’m also recognizing grief doesn’t work that […]
She continued, “I want people to know some days it’s OK to not be OK. That it’s enough if all you did today for yourself was to simply get out of bed and nourish your body. So I’m going to continue to keep posting pictures that show the hair grease, the under eye bags, the unclothed children, the sleep deprivation, and perhaps the little bit of sadness behind the eyes, because none of us have it all together all the time, especially during this pandemic. I can’t be a highlight reel.”
Roper noted that she hopes her content gives her followers “a big deep breath of air, one that exhales all the way out of your chest.”
“That breath that speaks permission you are OK to be here, just the way you are in this moment, no judgment, just simply being,” she wrote. “Hugs, Jade❤️.”
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