Love Island’s Malin Andersson shares message about diet culture

Malin Andersson has bravely spoken about her ‘Christmas triggers’ after enduring a six-year battle with an eating disorder.

The Love Island star shared a picture of herself struggling to do up her trousers on Wednesday alongside a motivational caption encouraging people to ditch crazy diets and eat mindfully.

The 26-year-old beauty insisted a ‘few pounds is nothing compared to your sane mental health’, inspiring others to not worry about the numbers on the scale.

Malin previously discussed her struggle with bulimia in an interview with Now magazine.

Her eating disorder began when she was just 16 and was at its worst when she worked as an air hostess in Dubai and had to be weighed before every flight.

Speaking out this week, she wrote: ‘CHRISTMAS TRIGGERS! So ermmm yeah, Christmas is upon us and this time of year is difficult for me even though I know I’m ‘cool’ with food now.

‘I decided to weigh myself this morning, I don’t know why, I just had some weird urge. I haven’t weighed myself in AGESSS! And I gained like 2 pounds.

‘I was like cool, okay. Then it made me think about over eating at Christmas and I had to stop myself and give my face a slap lol cos old Malin would have gone into meltdown.

‘Eat what you want. Enjoy yourself, be mindful, live for the moment and remember a few pounds is nothing compared to your sane mental health.

‘I know that when January comes it’s like ‘OMG IMA DIET’ – but don’t. I don’t care if my trousers don’t fit, I’ll buy a size up.

‘Let’s make a New Years Resolution to be CONSISTENT! Throw away the diets. Teach yourself to eat moderately, listen to your body more and eat for your mental wellbeing.

‘What’s gonna make ya feel better a greasy burger or tasty grilled salmon and potatoes? What’s gonna make your skin glow?!

‘Enjoy yourself my lovelies because we live once. Don’t get eaten up by crazy diets and the search to be skinny.

‘I did it before and I’m never going back to that bad place, WBU???? ❤️ TAG A FRIEND THAT NEEDS TO HEAR THIS!’.

The previous day, Malin shared another snap of herself wearing a pink velour Calvin Klein set, admitting she was focusing on herself and practicising self love.

It’s been a tough year for the TV personality, whose four-week-old baby daughter Consy tragically passed away in January following a premature birth.

Malin named her daughter after her late mother, who died in 2017 after her third cancer battle.

Sharing an inspirational post, Malin wrote: ‘I just needed to stop. I just needed to give myself a hug. Sometimes I put so much pressure on myself when I forget about how far I’ve come. I sometimes think I’m superwoman.

‘I also know it hurts to not have the love from my mum father daughter or partner. So it makes me feel lonely.

‘I used to think that ‘love’ from someone else was enough. I thought that the other person would complete me. It doesn’t work like that. I complete me.

‘You see society make us believe we need someone else to make us whole, but we don’t. We need to re-discover who we really are and we need to love every inch of ourself.

‘I thought that other people’s opinions mattered. I thought that by trying to please other people it would please me.

‘Practice self-love. Love yourself. No one else will love you as much as YOU and once you fall in love with yourself fully – you will then attract the most beautiful people. Yours truly x’.