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Leaning on her TikTok sisterhood, including Charli and Dixie D’Amelio – who regularly appear in her TikTok videos – and, of course, her pal Kourtney Kardashian (the pair met after Kourtney’s son Mason became one of many Addison superfans), has also helped Addison to deal with the spotlight. “And, directing your own path and making your life what you want it to be. Not falling into the same things that you have seen or known before that you know are not right, and not letting that dictate what you're going to do in your life,” Addison replies. What is the gamechanging advice she has learned in therapy, I wonder? “Not letting your past define your future. Just being able to have someone to talk to has been a big thing for me and understanding that if you let people understand you a little more, then they will.” Therapy is a great way to work on that and it’s an outlet to speak on things that are bothering you internally. “Self-worth is a big thing that I've been working on the past few months because it's definitely a real struggle, and it does affect you in your daily life, not having high self-worth. “I started seeing a therapist, which was really helpful just to not feel so down about myself,” she shares. I know I've not been eating the best during quarantine or maybe not working out as much and watching a lot of TV, but we need to give ourselves grace.” We can all relate to that, I tell her, putting down my chocolate biscuit while writing this.Īside from taking the time to make herself feel good through exercise, caring for her skin, spending “real time with people” away from her phone and “filling my feed with things that can help,” Addison has been attending therapy to help her grapple with her life-changing 18 months. If you can't mentally, emotionally or physically love who you are it becomes really difficult to even be happy. There is so much going on in the world today, adding self-esteem onto that is really tough. “I used to ask myself, ‘Why doesn't my body look like that? Or why isn't my hair that way? Or why is my face this way?’ Or even feature-wise, sometimes I would just really look at myself and pick myself apart for no reason.
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She adds: “There's this one quote that I love: ‘comparison is the thief of joy.’ That's so true because when you start comparing yourself to someone, you're just asking to be upset because you're comparing yourself to something that you will never be, because you're only you,” she smiles.Ĭomparison traps are the worst, I agree, knowing I have personally lost hours of my life comparing my body to other men on Instagram. I am 20 and my body is constantly changing, but people have this high standard around body image and say, ‘Oh, you have to look like this to look great or to look hot or to be cool or to be pretty.’ For me, a lot of people have said, ‘Oh I love how comfortable she is and she doesn't look like the beauty standard.’ It's a backhanded compliment sometimes because people will be like, ‘I'm so glad she's confident that she doesn't look perfect.’ It hurts sometimes when people say that, because I think everyone's perfect, so why is there some standard of ‘this body is the ideal body’? I have thought a lot in the past year that it doesn't really define me and I am learning to love my body and who I am, for what I am.” “It's a really hard thing to deal with when you're a girl, especially going through your teens. What would be a triggering comment for her, I ask? “A lot of it has to do with body image,” Addison sighs.
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“When I look at negative comments I can’t let it get to me that much and I think, ‘That doesn't define me, and they don't really truly know me in my heart.’ There's going to be people that don't like you and that want to tear you down, but you have to love yourself for who you are.” If you are not familiar, think of it as The Mickey Mouse Club for Gen-Z talent. The Spanish-style mansion – complete with a gigantic pool and big enough to house 19 creators – was also home to fellow mega-creators, Charli and Dixie D'Amelio and Bryce Hall (now Addison’s boyfriend). Her success encouraged her to drop out of Louisiana State University where she was studying broadcast journalism, and swapped her student digs for TikTok’s Hype House in LA. Sometimes the road you didn't think you were going to take is the one that you do, and you're glad that you did.” Social media offered me a really awesome roadway to take. All of a sudden – out of nowhere – I was posting all the time and getting likes, views and followers. How am I going to continue entertaining and performing without making the team?’ I thought I had to give up on all my dreams, but about four to five months later I started social media and TikTok. “In my senior year I was trying out for the college dance team, and I ended up not making it,” she reminisces.