Dragons star Indie Bostock shares body image, NRLW dream battle

Illawarra Mercury

The Shellharbour Stingrays junior, who debuted for the St George Illawarra Dragons in early July, has opened up about the online reception to her headline-worthy show. Footage by Grace Hamilton

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00:00Last year there was a time where I didn't want to play footy. I was underweight physically,

00:04mentally wasn't right and I took that Tasha Gale season off and made sure that I did the

00:10hard yards, I put on 10 kilos, I went and saw a sports psych and I sorted myself all out because

00:16I think it's important to know just if you're physically getting it done like you need mentally

00:21to work your body just as much and yeah that definitely the hard work has paid off because

00:27I feel like if I didn't go through all that last year I wouldn't be playing. I struggled with body

00:32image so much growing up. I was always very muscular but skinny and tall. I was always getting called a

00:38boy or like muscly through high school, primary school and it took a massive toll on me. I didn't

00:42want to go to the gym anymore and eating as well. I always like skipped meals just to make sure I

00:47wasn't like bulking but it started to show on the footy field. I was getting picked up, driven back

00:52like I wasn't winning tackles, I wasn't getting through as much as I used to when I was younger

00:56because everyone was putting on weight, putting on muscle and I just like refused to

01:00look like that because I saw it as such a negative thing. It was such like a, I wish I could just go

01:05back and stand out for myself but at the time it just like, it just used to rock me like I'd be like

01:09oh my god. At the end of last year I was like 62 kilos and now I'm 75 so I did hard work. Having

01:17the strength and the even like the eating more it's giving me like more energy and then I feel more like

01:24it's like yes I've got training where like before where I wasn't eating, wasn't doing any of

01:28that like I hated footy and it was so sad because footy was like my like my go-to like if I wanted

01:34a break footy was my break where it just completely flipped and used to cry after trainings, before

01:39trainings, it was like the six months it was like just a, couldn't recognize myself at all, it was crazy.

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