Curtis Pritchard has "started meditation" to help him be positive both in body and mind.
The 23-year-old dancer recently signed up to become an ambassador for weight loss programme WW after putting on around two stone during his time on ‘Love Island’, and now he has revealed how he manages to "focus" himself.
Speaing during a special edition of blogger Candice Brathwaite’s Teatime Live panel discussion at London’s Century Club this week, Curtis said: "Being body positive just means being happy with yourself.
"I try to be mentally positive – that means you end up body positive in turn. I’ve started meditation – it’s really cleared my head and started enabling me to focus on myself."
The reality star insisted while "body shaming" didn’t impact on his own mental health, people shouldn’t feel pressure from others to look a certain way.
He added: "It’s 2019 – people shouldn’t be body shaming one another.
"Luckily when it happened to me it didn’t affect my mental health – I have an incredible support network, my mum, my dad, my nan, and brother are always there – I can, and will always go to them.
"I also try not to read comments – positive or negative – because I believe if you accept everything you are, then you can be happy in yourself. I also believe post a picture if you want to post a picture – not because someone else wants you to!"
Curtis was joined on the panel by ‘This Morning’ presenter Alison Hammond, and she admitted she sometimes struggles to ignore trolls on social media.
She explained: "Occasionally I see negative comments – they stick out like a sore thumb amongst all the positive ones but unfortunately it’s the one negative one you always concentrate on.
"It consumes you for whole days at a time, but if someone said something negative to you in the street you’d be like what a weirdo! Nowadays if someone’s horrible, I don’t do a block, I actually follow them back. And they hate it, which is hilarious!"
Curtis Pritchard meditates to help with body positivity
