As a girl who grew up with an ex-plame for a mom, a dad who was in the entertainment industry,

living in Los Angeles, I developed eating disorder behavior from a very young age

and I still deal with body dysmorphic disorder to this day.

The way that I combat all of these things is by taking care of my mental and emotional health.

A few months ago I decided that I needed to do a social media purge.

I needed to unfollow all of the accounts that made me feel bad about my body because the truth is that even before I had kids,

I didn't feel great about it and now as a mom with stretch marks and cellulite and scars and all of the things,

I am working on body acceptance, so I unfollowed a number of accounts and shortly thereafter I came across an account that was absolutely beautiful to me.

The account is the Birds Papaya.

I didn't care who this woman was, I didn't care what she had to say at the time all I cared about was that I was seeing a body like mine on social media for the very, very first time.

I have the honor of sitting down and talking with Sarah Landry today.

She is a kick ass mom from Canada who is literally changing the way we show up on social media.

This episode is epic, I absolutely love her message and I'm sure that you guys are going to enjoy it too.

Hey, it's Alexa Sains and this is my podcast, Recovering From Reality.

I want to start with your journey, how you got to becoming where you're at today and so open and vulnerable.

Thanks for having me, I was naturally just a little girl right into when I was like in 12, 13, 14, I was already wearing plus-size clothes, I was bigger than all of my other friends and I got really used to relying on my humor, relying on my personality to get me out of that discomfort of what I felt like to be in my body.

So I was very, had very often on relationships with dieting ever since I was about 14, I think is the first diet that I really remember being in.

Never really had a lot of what quote unquote success with them, never really dealt with any core issues or anything.

And then at 19, I got married, I had three kids by the time I was 25 and at 28 years old, I was sitting at 225 pounds and I decided to do something about that because that was seemingly a very big problem.

My body seemed to be this thing that I needed to overcome and so there is good parts of that and there's bad parts of that.

The good parts of that is that I finally started to have some, some empowerment with myself and understanding that I could change my lifestyle and I could do things that really made me feel good.

The downside of it was that I was targeting my body with a ton of hate, just this notion that if I just lost weight, then I would love myself.

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