Sunday People

JUNGLE EMILY SHOWS US THE WAY

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WOMEN feel bad about themselves four times a day, y according g to a shocking new poll.

That means we fret about our looks, figures, personalit­ies or abilities 1,460 times a year.

Constantly chipping away at our self worth is s clearly futile and damaging.

Yet 61 per cent admit they’re not confident while six in ten younger women have low self esteem. m.

So thank heavens for the on-screen confidence conversion of I’m A Celebrity runner-up Emily Atack, right. The actress, 28, went into the show with a face full of slap and a head full of insecuriti­es insecuriti­es. Emily used slimming apps to alter photos of herself an and says she spent“a lifetime wearing armour”.

But t three weeks in the jungle baring her freckles and he her fears has made a profound difference.

“I’v “I’ve learned to accept who I am,” she said.

Emi Emily has ditched the slimming apps for good and says: ““We are all unique. Some have rock-hard abs, som some have a bit of jam roly-poly. It’s all OK.”

It I is. And it will inspire many other women to challenge cha their self-confidence demons.

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