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01-19-2011, 02:36 AM
| | |  Evanna Lynch discusses negative body images & overcoming personal obstacles
Harry Potter actress Evanna Lynch recently wrote a personal essay on body image, the obsession over which she considered her personal Boggart. Evanna, who plays ethereal Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter series, went into detail about negative body image and how she considers it a personal body bind, of sorts.
The actress discussed this particular topic as she had suffered from anorexia nervosa for two years in her youth, but with the aid of J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter series, she was able to overcome the ailment. Highlights of the story can read below; the full article can be found at HP Alliance.  Quote:
Unfortunately so, so many people are letting their own Negative Body Image be another type of body-bind that prevents them from living their life to the fullest. We feed ourselves negative thoughts about our body, thoughts like “I’m too fat”, “I’m too short”, “I’m too ugly.” Very quickly we glumly accept them as the truth, and thus we become imprisoned in our own body. We use them as excuses NOT to fulfill certain ambitions and lock ourselves into a cosy self-contained prism of isolation and fear.
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If you don’t use your body to its full potential, as a means of achieving your dreams, you are wasting it. You are no better off than someone who is locked in a total body bind curse. At the same time I realise how difficult it is to overcome this state of mind, and I know what a firm, unrelenting grip these thoughts can get on you.
A few years ago I was haunted by destructive, negative thoughts like these. I used to get so angry and frustrated because I felt my mind didn’t match up with my body and that it prevented me from things I knew I was capable of doing. It took me a while to realise that all of this was an illusion. If I continued to abuse my body by giving in to my negative thoughts, I didn’t deserve to have the health and fitness I was blessed with.
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Do whatever it is you have to do to make yourself feel beautiful. If that’s keeping fit and healthy then go for a walk or run in the mornings and be determined to keep it up. Do your makeup, or if you’re bored and want to change your appearance, then dye your hair a different colour. Eventually, by doing these little things and feeling more beautiful, you will break through all the self doubt and find the negative obsession fading away.
Don’t get lazy and tell yourself there’s no point; it’s important! Nowadays I know what I need to do to be happy with my appearance: I spend a few minutes in the morning picking out an outfit that will make me feel confident, and then I have the rest of the day, free from the old destructive thoughts, to pursue my creative pursuits – the most important thing!! But I know that if I didn’t take care of my body, I would get really down and feel incapacitated to do even the most menial everyday tasks.
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01-19-2011, 10:14 PM
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Well said Evanna! we should never look on the negative effects and find out who we are as a person. You are such a role model <3 :], i learned who my true self was in high school and i am loving life as it is :]
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01-19-2011, 10:17 PM
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She is very inspiring! Wise words of Evanna everyone! Very wise =]
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01-20-2011, 12:41 AM
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She and J.K. are why I am recovering from my eating disorder <3 The HP women are all such inspirations!!! Quote:
Originally Posted by R-Luchy~W*7*PG~  I disagree,Evanna.. With what do you disagree?
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01-20-2011, 03:11 AM
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Wow I never knew Evanna struggled with that.
After reading that article, she honestly just inspired me 
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01-20-2011, 03:58 AM
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I love how Evanna is humble and honest I hope this helps many people who are struggling with any type of body image problems
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01-20-2011, 05:46 PM
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It takes real courage to do something like that. Good for her!
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01-20-2011, 07:14 PM
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Wow, she is very inspirational and an awesome role model for girls.
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01-21-2011, 03:54 AM
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Lynch is just amazing and such a good role model, from her character to her personality she keeps telling people its okay to be diffrent and it is. She is such an inspiration. I love luna because she's diffrent and does her own thing, why does it have to be so difficult.
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01-21-2011, 03:23 PM
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This just makes Evanna's Cinderella story all the more touching.
And its really taught me something - I've always thought of Evanna as beautiful. If someone beautiful thinks they're ugly, isn't that proof that beauty is all in our heads? What we think is beautiful is beautiful and what we think is ugly is ugly. There's no formula for it, no one person you can point to and say "that is what beauty looks like".
If beauty is all in how we look at it, then Evanna is absolutely right - we need to fill ourselves with positive thoughts. We're the only people who can control the way we feel ourselves, so why choose negativity? Take time to feel good about yourself for yourself. Be confident because that's how you'll succeed.
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01-21-2011, 04:32 PM
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Wow!
Really nice essay 
I'm not confident with myself but I know now that thinking that everyday isn't going to make me prettier :\
Love you Evanna 
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01-21-2011, 09:37 PM
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Wow. I'm so proud of her for being bale to overcome something so tenacious on her own. This is something that every girl who struggles with self-image should read.
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01-21-2011, 09:40 PM
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Holy cow. Never would have guessed she suffered from that. :/ I'm glad she was able to over come it!
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01-22-2011, 12:37 AM
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That's brilliant. I'm so happy she's better now. She really is beautiful.
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01-22-2011, 01:28 AM
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I'm sure everyone on here can agree that the HP series has helped them out sometime with something in life. I for one am highly admiring of Evanna to admit that kind of a secret to well, possibly the whole world...depending on where else it was leaked, for use of a better word. I would never have guessed that she went through anorexia, but am very much glad she overcame it She is a beautiful girl on the inside and out, just like everyone, you just have to let it shine through...teehee psychologist moment  | |
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01-22-2011, 01:57 AM
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wow!! that´s hard... I like Evanna she´s so honest 
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