Softness In Strength: Ella Halikas on PCOS, Grief, & the Power of Showing Up REAL
The Pre-Game with Kayla Nicole
Dear Media
4.0 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week on The Pre-Game, Sports Illustrated curve model and creator Ella Halikas joins us for a conversation that will bring you to tears. We talk about everything from navigating the LA nightlife scene to living with PCOS, building body confidence, and why being unapologetically authentic is her greatest flex. She opens up about the recent loss of her brother, the silent heartbreak of loving someone battling addiction, and why being open about her pain is a necessary part of her healing. If you’ve ever felt the pressure to “stay strong” or felt like you needed permission to be seen in your full humanity, this one’s for you.
Need more of the show? Keep up with The Pre-Game on Instagram and YouTube.
Produced by Dear Media
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.6 | Okay, now ladies. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the pregame. |
| 0:13.7 | What's good, y'all? |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome back to another episode of the pregame. |
| 0:17.4 | It's your girl. |
| 0:18.4 | Kay, then Nicole. |
| 0:19.3 | And today's guest, she really doesn't need an introduction, but we're going to do it we're gonna do it different today. I have a sound bite. Ooh. Because this just, in my opinion, summarizes our guest today. Let's take a listen. If I hear one more, you guys tell me you're too big. You can't wear the outfit. You can't wear the dress. So you can't the bikini. Enough. Says who? Well, Bella, I know what the body type for that dress lies. But you don't |
| 0:43.5 | understand. Like, my sci-fi hole is showing same. Next. Next. Any other questions are |
| 0:49.5 | concerns. Tell me now. Thank you. You don't need to be small and tiny to wear what you want to wear. |
| 0:55.5 | Side bowl says what's up. |
| 0:57.1 | Ella says what's up. |
| 0:58.2 | Alexa, play ballast bitch. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm a boss ass bitch. |
| 1:06.0 | Bitch. |
| 1:07.0 | Bitch. |
| 1:08.0 | Bitch. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm a boss ass me. Yeah. I'm a podcast bitch. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dear Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dear Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.