Melanie Lynskey Shares What Inspired Her Body Acceptance After Suffering a Miscarriage (Exclusive)

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Melanie Lynskey has a powerful message. In a new theSkimm clip exclusively shared with ET, the  star opens up about her own journey to body acceptance and how a miscarriage ultimately led her to be less hard on herself. «It’s been a very long journey,» she says of getting to a good place with accepting her body. «I fought against it for a very long time -- the shape that my body’s supposed to be.»The 45-year-old actress, who has been working in Hollywood for nearly three decades, admits that it's «hard to be a size 10 next to a size 0.»«I spent many years not really eating,» she shares, «and being very worried about what I look like.»In 2018, Lynskey became a girl mom, which later influenced her outlook on her body. «A couple of years ago, I had a miscarriage and I just didn’t really recover from it physically,» she recalls, «and having a very young daughter made me really think about — OK, I need to be kinder to myself and accepting and saying sorry to my body for what It just went through and giving my daughter a positive example of what it looks like to have a mother who just is accepting her body.»Through her work — including notably her recent performance on the Showtime hit -- Lynskey is bringing more positive body diversity to the screen in a purposeful way. «It was really important to me for [Shauna] to not ever comment on my body, to not have me putting a dress on and being like, 'I wish I looked a bit better.' I did find it important that this character is just comfortable and sexual and not thinking or talking about it,» she previously explained to  about choices for her character. «Because I want women to be able to to watch it and be like, ‘Wow, she looks like me and nobody’s saying she’s the fat one.' That.