Katie Lee Biegel and Daphne Oz.Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty
For bothDaphne OzandKatie Lee Biegel, their body image has changed in the last few years — and they couldn’t be happier about it.
The cookbook authors andWW ambassadorsare close friends, and after pregnancies —four for Ozand one for Lee Biegel — they share a similar mindset on “letting go” of body insecurities, as Lee Biegel tells PEOPLE in a joint interview.
Oz, too, says that these days she focuses more on how she feels in her body than obsessing over what she puts into it or what it weighs on a scale.
“The older I get, the more I realize that when you’re young, you really do think that that the number on the scale is going to make you feel a certain way or that goals should be like outwardly defined. And the older I get, hopefully the wiser I get, the more I realize how really and truly the more I invest in myself, the more I’m doing the internal work — that’s when not only do the results follow, but also like my internal confidence goes through the roof,” she says.
Lee Biegel says thatpregnancy changed her body image, along with the pandemic.
“Pre-pandemic, we were always getting dressed and going somewhere. And so you put on an outfit and decide that you don’t like the way you look so you change. You do it three or four times,” she says. “Now I’m not really going anywhere so I don’t really have that conversation with the mirror. I just feel like I’m so much less focused on the way that I look and it feels really good to let go of that.”
For Oz, she feels like she’s “been on this journey of feeling strong in my skin for a while, not just in the last year and a half.
“I’ve always talked openly about being an overweight kid in a family full of health nuts and finding my way to a healthy lifestyle in college,” she says. “I’m very, very grateful to have come to a really strong and happy place in my own skin. I recognize that there are clothes that won’t fit or there are those fluctuations and you have to meet yourself where you are and feel grateful in that moment.”
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And both women are making a point to model a healthy body image as they raise daughters — Lee Biegel with Iris and Oz withPhilomena, 7,Domenica, 3 andGiovanna, 2.
“I just really want my daughter to feel good about herself, more than anything,” Lee Biegel says. “Whatever her body looks like when as she grows, I want her to always feel good. I don’t want her to ever think twice about the way that she looks. I just want her to embrace her body.”
They’re both also “thankful that times are really changing when it comes to what beautiful means,” says Lee Biegel. “I grew up in a time when a good body meant that you looked like a Barbie doll and now so many different types of bodies are embraced and everybody is beautiful. And I love that.”
“I think our girls are gonna grow up in a very different mindset than what it was in the eighties,” Oz agrees.
source: people.com
