Rita Ora: "It's all about what your body needs!" Body confidence starts with self-care
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The size zero trend... the circle of shame... the fad diets... Millennial women who grew up during the 2000s now have the lowest body confidence of any generation, and Rita Ora understands the pressure for women to look a certain way all too well.
In this chat, brought to you by Dove, Fearne and Rita explore the factors that might have influenced their relationships with their bodies over time – from magazines, to catwalks, to so-called health hacks.
As part of Dove’s Self Esteem Project, Fearne and Rita chat about how to focus more on how your body feels, than how it looks. Millennial women are 1.3x more likely to define self-care as working on their appearance, so, how can we create self-care routines that really listen to what our individual bodies need to be strong and energised instead? Rita also opens up about how she manages the anxiety that comes from her internal chatter.
If you want more support, Dove has created a journal full of body confidence exercises to help in building better awareness about our internalized beauty belief systems that might be more harmful to you than helpful. You can find it at dove.com/why2k.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. This is the show that looks to raise your |
| 0:06.4 | self-esteem and body confidence. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Dove and we're |
| 0:12.2 | going to be getting into the incredibly important topic of body confidence because let's be |
| 0:16.3 | honest, how we feel about our bodies affects everything. Our energy, our self-respect, our relationships, |
| 0:22.5 | our work, even when and how we engage and socialise with our kids and friends. So happy |
| 0:28.0 | place is teaming up with Dove's self-esteem project to help us all reconnect with our bodies in a way |
| 0:33.4 | that's kind, accepting, respectful and real. Today, I'm chatting to Rita Aura. |
| 0:39.7 | I think for me the idea of looking a certain way in my late 20s, that's when it started to hit |
| 0:45.5 | me because my stamina was low. I wasn't looking after my body. I was getting sick a lot. |
| 0:49.8 | And I didn't feel like my body was hot, and I didn't accept the idea of like, |
| 0:55.6 | okay, well, I'm not as thin as these other people, and so I'm ugly. |
| 0:59.6 | And that's really sad to think back on, because I know I wasn't. |
| 1:03.5 | It's like what you do when you're attacking your younger self, like in therapy, |
| 1:07.0 | and you're like, that girl was still really beautiful, |
| 1:09.0 | and I felt like I didn't appreciate her. |
| 1:12.1 | I wonder if you've ever felt the way Rita says she did. I know I certainly have. I mean, if you grew |
| 1:17.1 | up in the early 2000s like I did, you'll remember the intense pressure to look a certain way. |
| 1:22.9 | The circle of shame in magazines, the endless diet fads, and that truly awful phrase, |
| 1:30.1 | nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. |
| 1:32.7 | I mean, listen, I definitely bought into some of those mad trends. |
| 1:36.0 | And of course, it impacted how I saw myself. |
| 1:39.0 | I guess I found it extra hard because not only was I imbibing that sort of content, |
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