00:00 On this journey of self-discovery,
00:01 I realized my thighs weren't supposed to be really thin.
00:05 They're supposed to jiggle.
00:06 Hi, I'm Jennifer Atillamil,
00:08 and this is my women's health body scan.
00:11 Ooh, the thing I love most about my body is my curves.
00:16 I grew up not loving them,
00:19 and it's been a journey finding myself,
00:22 which is like my body appreciation journey,
00:24 as you would call it.
00:25 Being able to figure out who I am, who I am as a woman,
00:27 and then love my body as it is,
00:29 is one of the main reasons that I do what I do,
00:32 but also one of the main reasons
00:33 that I love my body so much.
00:35 I still have a love-hate relationship with my thighs.
00:38 I grew up with my mom and my grandma
00:41 kind of constantly referring to the fact
00:44 they're a little bit bigger
00:45 than what they thought my body should look like
00:47 as a young girl.
00:48 And on this journey of self-discovery,
00:51 I realized my thighs weren't supposed to be really thin.
00:53 They're supposed to jiggle.
00:55 One day I love them, the next day I don't.
00:57 I feel like that's synonymous with women
00:59 anywhere all around the world.
01:01 Like one day we love our bodies, one day we don't.
01:03 It's just something that we're constantly working on
01:06 and constantly evolving with, but I love them today.
01:09 I love working out my booty.
01:12 It's the booty and the quads
01:15 that help support my lower back.
01:18 And it also, you know, the added bonus
01:20 is that I have a really perky butt,
01:22 and like that's awesome.
01:23 I do resistance, like strength training twice a week,
01:27 and then I try and do Pilates,
01:29 whether it's Reforma or Mat Pilates, three times a week.
01:32 And then I also try and go for a hike at least twice a week.
01:35 If I'm not gallivanting all around the world for work,
01:38 I am very strict on my routine.
01:41 My go-to healthy meal, I usually do two hot boiled eggs,
01:45 piece of avocado toast, and a cup of bone broth.
01:48 I really love to mix my avocado toast with feta cheese,
01:53 and there's this really, really amazing feta cheese
01:56 from Meredith's Dairy, which is an Australian brand,
01:58 but it's available in America, which is amazing.
02:00 When I'm constantly traveling for work and stuff,
02:02 I find it really hard to keep with my healthy eating.
02:06 So there are like non-negotiables
02:08 that I will always travel with
02:09 or make sure I pick up at the airport,
02:11 but I always like to have nuts with me.
02:13 I love cashews,
02:15 and then I will always have some jerky with me.
02:18 And then there are these amazing protein bars
02:20 that I get in LA.
02:22 So a smoothie that I love to make when I'm on the go
02:24 is this amazing blueberry and banana smoothie.
02:27 I do have a scar that sticks out to me.
02:30 It's on my eyebrow,
02:32 and it happened to me when I was three or four,
02:35 so I can't really remember it,
02:36 but I have been told about it numerous times from my mom
02:40 that I was playing duck, duck, goose
02:41 at my cousin's birthday party,
02:43 and we were running around the circle,
02:46 and we were getting so into it
02:47 that I went flying straight into the corner
02:50 of a glass coffee table
02:52 and had to be rushed immediately to hospital,
02:55 and I had three stitches, I believe.
02:57 And yeah, it's kind of permanently,
02:59 not disfigured my eyebrow,
03:00 but made my eyebrow very unique.
03:02 I have a lot of tattoos.
03:04 I can't remember how many I have,
03:07 but every time I go back to Australia,
03:09 my mom's like, "Have you got another tattoo?"
03:10 And I'm like, "Yeah, probably."
03:12 But the one that I think sticks out to me the most
03:15 is my first one.
03:17 I just finished my undergraduate degree,
03:20 and I thought, what better way to go out
03:23 and celebrate finishing university by getting a tattoo.
03:26 I'm really proud of it, and I love it,
03:28 and I, yeah, it's a forever memory
03:30 that I finished university.
03:32 My skincare routine,
03:33 it's probably one of the most asked about things in my life.
03:38 Because I've kind of lived everywhere around the world,
03:41 I feel like my skincare routine has changed
03:44 depending on where I'm living.
03:46 Everywhere has different water, has different climates,
03:49 so the products that I use in Australia
03:51 are really different to the products
03:52 that I used when I lived in New York,
03:54 and are also really different to the products
03:56 that I now use in LA.
03:57 My favorite things are really, really deep
04:01 moisturizing creams that I will generally wear overnight.
04:05 So some of my favorites are the Wellita Skin Food,
04:08 and there's an amazing Emma Lewisham 72-hour face mask
04:13 that you just go to bed with,
04:14 and you wake up with amazing skin.
04:17 My skincare routine at the moment isn't too hectic,
04:21 but it kind of still is.
04:22 Like, I have all the tools and gadgets and everything,
04:24 but I feel like I'm still searching
04:26 for my favorite product,
04:28 but that's coming 'cause I'm making my own.
04:31 So in terms of hair care, I have a pretty simple routine.
04:36 I love a hair mask.
04:38 There's an amazing Briogeo Avocado hair mask.
04:41 That's kind of the best thing that I use
04:44 after having so much heat on my hair.
04:47 I also been in denial about the fact
04:49 that I've had curly hair for a lot of my life,
04:52 and it was during quarantine
04:53 that I kind of really saw my curls come through
04:56 because my hair wasn't being heat treated
04:59 for like over a year.
05:00 So once I discovered that I had a good curl pattern,
05:05 I was like, okay, cool, I'm gonna start buying
05:07 curly shampoos, curl creams, curl this, curl that.
05:11 Anyone with curly hair knows
05:12 that if your curls aren't hydrated,
05:14 then they're not gonna be curly.
05:16 For me, my mental health is really, really important.
05:19 I treat my mental health
05:20 the same way I treat my physical health.
05:22 I think everyone has gone through
05:25 their own experience of a quarantine,
05:27 but it was really throughout that time
05:28 when I got to stop and reflect
05:31 on how busy my life had been previously to that,
05:34 how much I really treasured the progress
05:37 that I made with my mental health
05:39 when I had time to focus on it.
05:41 I see a therapist every week.
05:43 I also make sure that I exercise
05:46 because for me, exercising, even if I don't want to,
05:49 even if it's like literally going for a walk
05:51 around the block for like maybe 15 minutes with my dog,
05:54 that changes my mind frame immediately.
05:57 I've also started to meditate
05:59 and I would love to meditate more.
06:02 I know how beneficial it is,
06:05 but I also wanna say like,
06:06 even though I'm doing all these things
06:07 for my mental health, some days it's not okay.
06:09 And I think it's also having that grace with yourself
06:12 to like just say that I'm not okay today
06:16 and kind of remove yourself and, you know,
06:19 binge watch a TV show and just be on the couch
06:22 and not talk to people.
06:23 Like it's okay to have ups and downs
06:26 and that's kind of what makes you human.
06:28 And I think the more people recognize that
06:29 and rather than try and go on about their day,
06:32 like everything's fine, I think,
06:33 the better we'll all be talking about mental health
06:36 and treating it with kindness.
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