MAFS star Tamara Djordjevic has candidly opened up about her experience with body dysmorphia, saying she often struggles to feel confident in her body.
The 30-year-old took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal she hit one of her lowest points after MAFS finished filming late last year.
“If you’ve been following me for a while you’ll know I spoke quite a bit about how post-MAFS I was really skinny and I didn’t feel very confident in my body,” she told her 119,000 followers.
Tamara said she didn’t feel “womanly” in her body after leaving MAFS.
(Image: Instagram)“I just didn’t feel very womanly. My bum was flatter, I had a six pack though that was nice, my boobs were smaller and I didn’t have much curves.
“I did feel really skinny and I didn’t like it. I complained about it all the time, I was like, ‘yuk I feel so skinny’. Even my smallest size of clothes didn’t fit.”
Body dysmorphic disorder is a mental illness characterised by constant worrying over a perceived or slight defect in appearance.
Tamara revealed she’s gained six kilos between filming MAFS and now. Despite insisting she realises she isn’t overweight, she still struggles to feel content in her body.
Tamara said she’s gained six kilos.
(Image: Instagram)“Now I’m on the other side of that where I am at the weight I wanted to be. My boobs are back, my bum’s back but my hips are also back and they just don’t look cute to me in the clothes they used to look cute in,” she said.
“I’m like, ‘what is wrong with me?’ You have something in mind, like a goal, and then you get there and you’re like, ‘that’s not really good enough is it’.”
“How fu–ked is body dysmorphia.”
Tamara has always been open with fans about her personal life. In June, Tamara got candid on her ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder).
“I got diagnosed when I was like 10, being female is very different to being male when you have ADHD,” she told Daily Mail, confirming a common conception that it’s more difficult to diagnose the disorder in young men than in women.
However, once she was diagnosed, Tamara noticed that medication affected her personality, leading her to ultimately decide to stop taking it.
“Unless it affected my day-to-day life hugely, which it doesn’t, having ADHD does make me a little bit crazy. I’ve learned to embrace it. When I am really heightened by my ADHD I know what to do about it.”
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