Radio host Mel Greig recently insisted she would rather be ‘happy and healthy’ than reach her goal weight of 68kg.
And on Monday, the 38-year-old proudly showed off her ‘chins’ on Instagram and encouraged others to do the same.
‘I want to give you a daily dose of realness and I want to introduce you to my chins because it’s all about angles on social media and I’ve got four rippers,’ she said.
‘I love my chins’: Radio host Mel Greig (pictured) proudly showed off her ‘chins’ in a body positive video and told fans to ‘not worry about the angles’
‘Just embrace it, don’t worry about the angles. I love my chins, you should love yours too. Let’s end of that,’ she added.
Mel also captioned the post: ‘Daily dose of keeping it real. Today I want you to meet my chins. Inspired by the @imperfectlyperfectcampaign mental health forum.’
Mel’s post comes after she accepted she may never get back to the weight she once was in her twenties and has thrown out her old garments.
She encouraged others to throw out their ‘skinny boxes’ too, and said: ‘No I didn’t get back to 68kg, and I don’t intend to.’
‘I want to give you a daily dose of realness and I want to introduce you to my chins because it’s all about angles on social media and I’ve got four rippers,’ she said
‘Trying to be skinny is exhausting’: Mel’s post comes after she accepted she may never get back to the weight she once was in her twenties and has thrown out her old garments
The cardboard box, which was labelled ‘Skinny clothes. Only open when you are back down to 68 kilos’, showed signs of wear, tear and deterioration from being in storage for so long.
Mel has openly discussed her struggle to lose weight in the past.
‘I don’t aspire to be skinny anymore, I just aspire to be happy and healthy,’ Mel wrote on Instagram last month.
‘I don’t aspire to be skinny anymore’: The 38-year-old encouraged others to throw out their ‘skinny boxes’ too, and said: ‘No I didn’t get back to 68kg, and I don’t intend to’
As she packed up her belongings while preparing to move to the Gold Coast, Mel decided she was no longer going to lug around the ‘skinny box’.
‘Trying to be skinny is exhausting,’ she captioned a video of herself opening the box for the first time in five years.
When fans asked what would happen to the clothes, she said: ‘They joined a huge pile of other clothes I’d been hoarding and now have a lovely home at the Salvos.’
Goal weight: Mel has previously used this photo taken in 2010 as motivation. It shows her with red hair and a slimmed-down figure when she weighed 68kg in her late twenties
Changes: Mel has been open about her fluctuating weight in the past, and even came within 5kg of her goal weight in 2016
In January 2016, Mel had boxed up the ‘skinny clothing’ and embarked on a fitness overhaul. By June of that year, the presenter came within 5kg of her goal weight.
However, her weight fluctuated in the years that followed.
While ‘skinny’ is no longer her end goal, in January of this year Mel said she wanted to follow in Rebel Wilson’s footsteps by making 2021 her own ‘Year of Health’.
Inspiration: While ‘skinny’ is no longer her end goal, in January of this year Mel said she wanted to follow in Rebel Wilson’s (right) footsteps by making 2021 her own ‘Year of Health’
The DJ struggled to find work after 2012, when she and her then-co-host Mike Christian prank-called the London hospital where The Duchess of Cambridge was receiving treatment during her first pregnancy.
The 2DayFM duo impersonated The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh while speaking with nurse Jacintha Saldanha, questioning her over the Duchess’s condition.
Mrs Saldanha, a mother of two, committed suicide once the conversation was aired.
Mel, who appeared on Celebrity Apprentice three years later, has often spoken of her remorse about what happened to Ms Saldanha.
Scandal: The DJ struggled to find work after 2012, when she and her then-co-host Mike Christian prank-called the hospital where The Duchess of Cambridge was receiving treatment during her first pregnancy. The nurse who answered the call later committed suicide