Whenever Gordon experiences a negative thought about herself, she works to turn it around with gratitude – something which hasn’t always proven easy in the past. However, she says this changed when she gave birth to her daughter Edie. “Giving birth really changed the relationship with my body because I realised that bodies are pretty incredible,” explains Gordon, “and I wasn’t self-conscious in the same way I was prior to that.”

It’s common that parents often want their kids to possess and experience the body positivity that they themselves were never exposed to as children. Gordon, however, emphasises the need to help yourself first. “You’ve got to stop trash-talking yourself,” she points out. “Kids are sponges and so it all starts with you.”

Gordon goes on to stress that Edie was her impetus and states that she can’t want body confidence “for my daughter” without it existing in herself first. Through her social media, she tries to lead by example by refusing to edit her own images and being vocal about her own body and mental health. In fact, she was one of the 16 mental health accounts the Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to follow to highlight mental health, and she uses this as an example of how we can use social media for good.

Body Politics: Bryony Gordon on the one thing we can all do to reach self-love