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Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself ft. Danielle Prescod

Naked Beauty

The Naked Beauty Podcast

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Naked Beauty, BET’s Style Director Danielle Prescod is back for a deeply personal and honest conversation about body image, IVF treatment, mental health, and finding what makes you happy. With a career in fashion and beauty editorial, Prescod’s life has often been filled with black tie events and fabulous launch parties. However, over the past year or so, Prescod has made a point to look inward and to establish strong mental health habits. Listen to hear us talk about:

  • Ghosting Therapists
  • The choice to go on medication
  • IVF Weight Gain & how it impacts her self-esteem
  • Body Image
  • Meditation Apps
  • Canyon Ranch/Depression, Anxiety, and Living in the Present Moment 
  • Her beauty, skincare and fragrance faves

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Brooke Devard, and we're back with a special episode of the Naked Beauty Podcast and I'm with

0:14.5

Daniel Prescott who's been on the show she was on in 2017 her episode was

0:19.5

called Celibate, sober and. And she talked about some pretty extreme eating habits.

0:27.2

Here's a clip of Danielle talking about her diet

0:29.4

back in our 2017 episode.

0:31.8

So some days I'll just like fast till dinner time. So you just wake up

0:36.3

Joanie. I have a machelette and then I'll have tea bone broth and water for the rest of the day and then like by nighttime I'll have tea, bone broth, and water for the rest of the day.

0:43.0

And then like by night time I can have food.

0:45.0

Just like a small sensible dinner.

0:47.0

Usually like a ketosis-based dinner, which is like fat and protein.

0:51.0

And certain vegetables, because a lot of vegetables have hidden carbs. fat and protein. Okay.

0:53.0

And certain vegetables because a lot of vegetables have hidden carbs like carrots or beef.

0:57.0

So when I saw this post from her on Instagram, I reached out immediately and said, okay, I have to have you back on the show.

1:02.0

And this is what her post says.

1:04.0

Some of you may know, but I froze my eggs earlier this summer.

1:06.8

As a result of hormone therapy that I needed to do before the retrieval,

1:10.2

I gained 14 pounds.

1:12.1

This doesn't seem like a big deal or that much weight when you really think about it.

1:15.0

But I've been unable to lose the weight and as a result a lot of my clothes no longer fit.

1:19.0

I already have a complicated and contentious relationship with my body that started way before any of this and

1:24.2

has certainly been amplified by a failure to have a body that is acceptable for my job

1:28.3

in the fashion industry and I'm working on it or I have been working on it. I've been

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