‘New Year, Same Me’: Stacey Solomon Reminds Us Why We Should Love Our Bodies This New Year

It’s the new year - and with it comes the typical ‘new year, new me’ spiel. Along with making resolutions to stop turning up to work late, or cutting out alcohol for Dry January, most people feel the pressure to change their bodies. Even if you don’t actually want to change your lifestyle, when it feels like everyone else is hitting the gym or cutting out all refined sugars, it can feel tough not setting any resolutions.

Enter Stacey Solomon{ =nofollow}, who has reminded us all that it’s OK to keep on loving your body ‘no matter how hard society tries to stop us’. Stacey - who is mum to 11-year-old Zachary, seven-year-old Leighton and baby Rex - shared a photo of herself holding her youngest son while wearing a bikini. And in the powerful post, she explained that she won't be making a 'new year, new me' promise - because she loves her body for bringing her kids into the world. ‘New year, same me,’ she wrote. ‘Because why change something that brought me the most happiness I could ever imagine. That brought me the smiley seven month old in the picture and the most amazing 11 year old taking it. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Here’s to another year of loving our bodies no matter how hard society tries to stop us.’

Stacey's latest post is just one of the many reasons we love the presenter and her refreshingly honest Instagram. Always keeping it real, body positivity is something she preaches, and regularly.

During Mental Health Awareness Week, the TV favourite also shared a photo of her bikini body - but this time while she was pregnant, urging her followers to be 'body kind'. ‘This week it’s Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is body image,’ she wrote. 'Something I feel so passionately about. So I’m posting to try and spread some body cheer… Our bodies are incredible. No matter what society makes you feel, YOU ARE ENOUGH. What we look like does not define us. I try so hard to make a conscious effort every day of being kind to myself and loving who I am inside and out. It doesn’t come easily but it serves a huge reward.’

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