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Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Hunter McGrady: Redefining Beauty, Mantras & Body Positivity

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Mayim Bialik

Comedy, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Hunter McGrady, the lovely and talented trailblazer for plus size modeling, shares the ups and downs of her career including her journey to be on the cover of Sport Illustrated’s Swim Suit issue in nothing but body paint! Mayim and Hunter discuss the anxiety and depression that both men and women face in response to unrealistic societal body standards. Hunter opens up a dialogue on the important role that therapy has played in helping her to learn self love and build her confidence! She even gives Mayim some mantras to work on.

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0:00.0

What is sexy? Like you just said, right? Like it's different for everybody. Like for me,

0:07.0

I'm like when you get out of the shower and you're like freshly clean and like full of

0:12.7

shame and guilt that you're naked. That's a new perfume actually line that they're

0:19.8

launching filled with shame and guilt. Hi, I'm Iambialaq and welcome to my breakdown.

0:26.2

This is the place where we break things down so you don't have to.

0:44.0

Today we're going to be breaking down body image, body positivity and getting naked in front

0:52.8

of people you don't know. Our guest is Hunter McGrady who's I mean, it's it sounds weird

1:01.8

to say, but it's true. She's the the largest size woman to ever be featured in sports

1:07.0

illustrated swimsuit issue. She's very, very impressive and interesting and she has

1:12.4

a lot to say about mental health. But first, let me introduce you to my number one pick

1:20.4

for next year's sports illustrated swimsuit issue cover Jonathan Cohen. Hi, my name. How's

1:26.9

it going? Have you picked out my outfits? Yeah, for the issue. Totally naked as Hunter McGrady

1:33.5

with some body paint. Just the Canadian flag painted across my chest. Jonathan, how are

1:39.6

you feeling about your body today? That's a tough question. It's not something I normally

1:43.9

think about in terms of like how do I feel about it versus how do I feel in it? Sure.

1:49.9

How do you feel in your body today? Because Hunter's going to she's going to set us straight

1:54.3

about how we should feel about our body. Well, I feel okay about it because I think

1:58.5

I don't spend an enormous amount of time thinking about it lately. I used to think a lot

2:03.4

more about it. I used to like want a lot of muscles and I wanted a six pack and I wanted

2:07.3

this and that and the other thing. And like, then I got to be a dad and I got really

2:10.9

busy and then I'm like, who has time for that? I didn't get a vote. Here's what I thought

2:18.8

about my body today. I was very self conscious to expose my shoulders. It's the second time

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