In her teen years and early 20s, Fiona Falkiner was convinced her weight stood in the way of her living a happy life.
“There were so many things that I was just too scared or too embarrassed or didn’t think I was fit enough to do,” Falkiner recalls.
“I used to go on holidays with friends and not do a thing. In Thailand, all my friends went trekking and I thought, ‘Well, I can’t do that’ so I just stayed on a beach with my sister instead.”
These days, this scenario is hard to imagine. Since she placed fourth in The Biggest Loser‘s first season in 2006, Falkiner has gone on to host the show and become an international model and brand ambassador for Trimfit Bodies and Target.
When she’s not doing all that, she’s using her social media platforms to spread messages of body love and health to her thousands of fans.
Yet Falkiner was once plagued by insecurities about her own appearance. “I blamed all of my problems, all of my insecurities, all of the stuff that was going on in my life on my weight. I always had it in my head [that] ‘if I lost weight, my life would be perfect’,” she tells Mamamia.
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