We love basically everything this woman has to say.
about how her career impacted her view of herself, admitting that it wasn’t until recently that she felt confident and secure in her own body. Lynskey said she’s fought against “the shape that my body’s supposed to be” for a long time.
“It’s hard to be a size 10 next to a size 0,” she told theSkimm’. “I spent many years not really eating and being very worried about what I looked like.” She continued, “A couple of years ago I had a miscarriage and I just didn’t really recover from it physically and having a very young daughter made me really think about, ‘OK, I need to be kinder to myself and accepting and saying sorry to my body for what it just went through.’ And giving my daughter a positive example of what it looks like to have a mother who just is accepting of her body.
“I did find it important that this character [Shauna] is just comfortable and sexual and not thinking or talking about it, because I want women to be able to to watch it and be like, ‘Wow, she looks like me and nobody’s saying she’s the fat one.’ That representation is important,” she toldLynskey reiterated that point to theSkimm’, saying, “I think it’s just good for women to get to see different shapes and sizes. I want to be representative of what a lot of women in the world look like.