Naked Photo Shoot Shows Athletes Have Body Image Issues Too
Baseball player Jake Arrieta [Photo: Instagram/ESPN]
It’s hard to truly love our own bodies, and easy to tell ourselves that if we looked a certain way, we’d finally be happy.
But there’s no silver bullet to self love, as ESPN magazine’s latest photo shoot proves.
Martial artist Conor McGregor [Photo: Instagram/ESPN]
Featuring professional athletes posing naked and discussing body image, it reveals that even the most physically fit struggle with their self esteems.
American footballer Antonio Brown [Photo: Instagram/ESPN]
Boxer Claressa Shields told ESPN she grew up thinking her nose was too big:
“I’d get hit in my nose and I’d think, ‘This nose is huge!’
But now I think I’m very beautiful, even though my lips are big too, but whatever, I don’t care. My dad and my sister have a big nose too. I’m fine with it.”
Kerri Walsh Jennings posed nine months pregnant for ESPN’s Body Issue 2013 [Photo: Instagram/ESPN]
Meanwhile Chicago Cubs’ Jake Arrieta talked body hair:
“I’m extremely hairy. I yell at my dad every time I see him for passing it down. It pretty much connects from the top of my head to my toes with a nice upper-body sweater/track jacket type of thing.
“My knuckles aren’t that hairy, but that’s about it.”
NFL player Vince Wilfork [Photo: Instagram/ESPN]
NFL player Vince Wilfork wanted to help boost the body confidence of readers of the magazine:
“I know I don’t have the six-packs and the eight-packs and all that … but I’m perfectly fine with what I am.
“If people can look at me, look at a guy that’s 325-plus doing an issue like this, I’m pretty sure that they might have a little confidence after seeing that it’s OK to be who you are.”
Hear hear, Wilfork.
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