Ileana Dcruz got emotional after her trainer asked her to embrace her body, after a workout, for whatever the body is capable of doing. Taking it to IG stories, the actress opened up on the same.
Ileana Dcruz shared a selfie and wrote, “And we back to it after a little interruption from the monthly maintenance crew.” She added further with another selfie where she posed with her teary eyes, saying, “Had a moment today that I haven’t ever had after a workout before. I got emotional and teared up a teeny tiny bit.”
She then added, “Reason? The trainer at the end of the stretching and cool-down said ‘now place your hands by your side and just embrace yourself… thank your body for all that it does for you’. And that hit so deep! It was the loveliest feeling ever! Try it and see how you feel as well (red heart emojis).”
She earlier spoke to Bollywood Bubble talking on she has been body-shamed as a child, saying, “I remember those days like it was yesterday. It’s weird because it’s a very deeply ingrained scar. I went through body-shaming right from the time I was 12. I had just hit puberty and growing up. You are hit with these weird comments. And people are passing comments about your body and saying, ‘Oh My God, why is your butt so big?’ And I am like, ‘What do you mean?’.” She also said, “You think you are fine and then suddenly you have random people saying things about you and you start to believe what they are saying. So I think it’s a deeply ingrained scar because you are carrying it for so many years. It takes a lot of inner strength to tell yourself that what they are saying doesn’t matter. What your feel about yourself is most important. And it’s something I tell myself every single day.” as quoted in HT.
