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Rachael Finch has spoken candidly about suffering from ‘disordered eating’ since she was a teenager entering the modelling industry.
The Australian model, television identity and mother-of-two opened up about struggling with her weight in June’s Women’s Health magazine, which is the also marks the year anniversary since she had her breast implants removed.
Rachael, 33, began her career in modelling in 2004 when she won Queensland Model of the Year and placed third runner-up at Miss Universe 2009.
‘I went through a very unhealthy stage where I was over-exercising; I was under-eating. I was internalising that I was way too heavy and way too big. I had someone tell me, ‘If you lost five kilos, you’d be perfect for the runway.’ So I just took that [to heart],’ she said.
The 33-year-old co-founder of Kissed Earth opened up about struggling with her weight in this month’s Women’s Health magazine, which also marks a year since she had her breast implants removed (Pictured in 2009)
Rachael began her career in modelling in 2004 when she won Queensland Model of the Year and placed third runner-up at Miss Universe 2009
‘I remember for months and months, I was like, ‘Just got to lose these five kilos’. I was already maybe 57, 58kg at the time. And so losing five kilograms off that already lean frame would’ve been very, very lean and very thin. I got to a point where I was about 52kg. I was so light and I was eating so little.
‘I was going to bed at seven o’clock and waking up at seven in the morning – 12 hours of sleep and I was still waking tired. I lost my menstrual cycle for over two years. I look back now and I think, ‘Well, of course [my cycle] wasn’t happening. My body wasn’t functioning the way it needed to, it wasn’t being given what it needed.”
It was during this difficult period that Rachael got her breast implants too. She was 17 at the time.
‘I have a very flat chest naturally; that’s just my body shape. I thought I needed to have the breast implants to balance out my body and be that ideal curvy, womanly [shape] in order to fit all of the dresses that I was modelling, or the swimwear, and have that perception of that perfect image,’ she said.
It was during this difficult period that Rachael got her breast implants too. She was 17 at the time (Pictured left in 2011 and right in 2018)
Rachael now weighs a much healthier 60 kilos, up from her lowest of 52.
One of the instrumental changes in the model’s life is a surprising one – she quit soft drinks, after guzzling half a bottle of diet soda each day, she told the Daily Telegraph in 2018.
‘I lived off skinny lattes, diet soft drinks and low fat foods,’ she told the paper.
She also admits: ‘I was so obsessed with counting calories all the time.’
Meeting her husband Misha 12 years ago on Dancing With The Stars was a turning point for Rachael, as he reminded her that he didn’t love her for her looks but for who she was as a person.
When she started to reflect on that it became clear to Rachael that she needed to heal her relationship with food and her body, something she has spent the past 10 years doing.
‘I lived off skinny lattes, diet soft drinks and low fat foods,’ she told the paper (Pictured in 2015)
‘When I started to answer those questions and get in tune with my body, my whole attitude towards life, food and movement completely changed,’ she said
‘When I started to answer those questions and get in tune with my body, my whole attitude towards life, food and movement completely changed,’ she said.
‘That’s why I never like saying on my Instagram, ‘daily exercise’. I always say ‘daily movement’, because I don’t feel like it should be this hardcore, smashing yourself, harsh, strict, daily practice. You should do what makes you happy.’
Rachael has previously shared her typical ‘day on a plate’ with Daily Mail Australia.
The model said she starts her day with a smoothie made from almond milk, avocado, frozen banana, spinach, nut butter and a scoop of her supplement brand Kissed Earth’s ‘Replenish Protein’ in vanilla or chocolate.
‘I also can’t go without my collagen coffee. It’s a black coffee with a scoop of collagen powder, medicinal mushrooms and maca powder blended,’ she said.
For lunch Rachael enjoys a ‘macro bowl’ of eggs, grilled broccoli, kale, brown rice, tomato slices and some avocado on the side.
Dinner is grilled fish and steamed vegetables with roasted baby chat potatoes, a nice balance of protein, carbohydrates and fats which she aims to incorporate in every meal.
If you need help or support for an eating disorder or body image issue, please call Butterfly’s National Helpline on 1800 334 673 or email support@thebutterflyfoundation.org.au.
‘I also can’t go without my collagen coffee. It’s a black coffee with a scoop of collagen powder, medicinal mushrooms and maca powder blended,’ she said
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