Woman learns to love arms and legs after years of insecurities – despite death threats

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I still sometimes struggle to be fully confident with my arms but I've just learnt to accept them, remain neutral to them and not put pressure on myself to feel positive towards them,” she said.“It's sometimes impossible to feel fully positive or confident towards a part of your body when you've been ridiculed for it, or told by society that it's not 'flattering or pretty', so I like using the term body neutrality.“[This means] you just see your body as something that helps you get through life rather than worrying about what it looks like to yourself and others.”Charlotte believes that a lot of people’s self-hatred towards their bodies comes from the media – as young people mainly see slim bodies in advertising and online.Even in successful and creative jobs, she says you see people with the same body type.“If brands and big companies started to include diversity within body types then I think people would be able to embrace their own appearance more,” she explained.“I genuinely feel like it would decrease eating disorder illnesses and leave young men and women in a happier place – allowing them to focus on their goals and what they're passionate about, rather than on their appearance.”The content creator has received online death threats over the years, simply for being comfortable in the skin she’s in.She previously told Daily Star: “People say that I promote obesity and comment the whale and pig emojis.“Most of them I laugh at and brush off but sometimes if there's an influx, it can get me really down.“The ‘promoting obesity’ one annoys me in particular though because.