I would like to ask you how do you feel
about your body in this very moment are
you proud of your body or do you try to
hide it does it create stress for you
when you look in the mirror it’s your
body image holding you back from showing
up in the world as the beautiful and
powerful being that you are inside when
I started my design house st. Pucci in
1985 all my runway shows from Milan to
New York featured models in sizes eight
or ten that was the fashion industry
norm back then as time went on I noticed
an alarming trend if we had models
larger than a size two on the catwalk
the press would refuse to feature them
in their magazines in 2010 when
Swarovski asked me to design a dress
featuring their latest collection of
various shapes of crystals I came up
with this masterpiece and showed it on
the catwalks and the Waldorf Astoria in
New York as my model walked down the
runway in this creation of shimmering
crystals and intricate hand embroidery
the entire hall of more than 500 people
erupted with excitement but I was
shocked when the press ignored this
design that received standing ovations I
found out later that there had made a
deliberate editorial decision that my
model at a size six was too heavy you
see the image of a fashion model is of
great significance to our culture she is
a dream an unattainable ideal a paragon
of beauty and consequently a symbol of
oppression for many women who strive all
their lives to be like her but
inevitably fail because of the media
body dissatisfaction has become an even
a problem in recent years in Western
societies especially the ideal body is a
body that is extremely thin preferably
white of a certain shape and size the
very thin and beautiful models you see
on the catwalks on social media in
magazines are considered the most
successful and socially desirable people
on the planet did you know that most
images showing us are in fact for the
shot a model is made to look lighter
taller skinnier and her skin tone is
perfected sometimes to the point of
being unrecognizable
oddly enough of the more than 15,000
women I have personally worked with over
the years most were between sizes 10 and
18 the reality is that the average size
worn by a woman in the United States is
size 14 now Society standards of an
ideal body doesn’t only apply to women
but to men as well the male physique is
often portrayed as chiseled and
shirtless in various men’s magazines
such as men’s health and others causing
a feeling of embarrassment and non
masculinity in men and driving so many
to drug and alcohol abuse and steroid
use women are not only expected to look
thin but also to look young all the age
and wrinkles are frowned upon so many
teenagers and young women will do
anything to alter their bodies either
going through your your dieting or going
under the knife and cosmetic surgery
today girls as young as 13 are getting
Botox to freeze their youthful
appearance it doesn’t matter what they
do or how beautiful and accomplished
they are more still feel they are not
good enough I should know because I was
one of them even at the age of three
was constantly compared to the females
in my family they were very very fair
and I was very dark complexioned I still
remember this parrot green colored frog
that both I and my cousin owned and
unlike her I wasn’t allowed to wear mine
all I could do was look at it longingly
as his date hanging in my closet so many
restrictions were placed on me because
of how I looked that shame and the
feeling of not measuring up to others
perception of beauty stayed with me for
decades it turned me into an introvert
and I became comfortable hiding in my
own little world pouring my energy into
my studies I became an overachiever
hoping that by showing my
accomplishments I would be loved even at
the height of my success deep inside I
never felt deserving or worthy it didn’t
matter how many shiny objects I had the
latest fashion or the greatest
achievements and awards
I felt incomplete I looked for
validation outside me at my work in my
relationships in acquisitions it was
exhausting and then the car accident
happened this was March 2015
I was a passenger in the car that tried
to run a red light at an intersection
the car was totaled the driver came away
unscathed the airbag deployed and hit me
and my chest caved in I couldn’t breathe
and for almost eight months I couldn’t
even lie down to sleep that was a
wake-up call so many things could have
gone wrong but for the grace of God
every waking moment was spent sending
love to my body I would scan my body
from head to toe and thanking every cell
every limb every organ for being there
for me my body became my best friend
it took an accident for me to realize my
body is a mirror
I look at my past now and say that’s my
past my past is only as powerful as how
I perceive it and the meaning I give it
we live in a society that would have us
conform we look at other people’s lives
and their body and the image and we
compare ourselves with them you know
they show us the polished version and
it’s talks this desire to have the right
body the right image the right fashion
and one day we wake up and we realize
what an empty existence that is you
can’t win that game you just cannot win
it it doesn’t matter how hard you pedal
there’s always going to be somebody with
a better body a bigger house a hotter
partner it’s quite Hollow stop the
comparison game and look at yourself and
your body and fall in love with the
beautiful and the less beautiful your
body is a miracle now I would like to
ask you again it’s your body image
holding you back are you stuck in a
limiting belief that you are not good
enough if so I would like to offer you a
framework that if you were to follow
would help change your limiting beliefs
there are three steps the first step is
to identify your limiting beliefs in my
opinion this is the hardest step of all
because you have to go back in time
somewhere someone some event trigger
that in you and you must deep dive into
your subconscious and bring it to the
surface the second step is to weaken the
existing limiting beliefs because if you
don’t do this any new belief that you
put on top will not stick
compare that to a mouldy wall you want
to put new wallpaper but unless you
clean off the mold first the mold will
continue to grow underneath the new
wallpaper so as you go through the
second step
ask yourself this belief that you have
is this really true then there is a
third step sorry this is where you
replace your old beliefs with new ones
that won’t limit you you can do this
through affirmations visualizations and
even vision boards but you must go
through the first two steps in order to
succeed here
the third step has helped me the most
and I would like to share with you a
method I use to strengthen my new belief
every single day I wake up in the
morning and I meditate I light incense
and a walk through my home blessing each
room in the hallway is a large mirror
where I stop for a long moment I look at
my reflection in the mirror I look
deeply into my eyes and I say to myself
Ronny you are beautiful you are
brilliant I love you I love you very
very very much
love appreciate and accept your body
your body is your best friend your body
is a miracle the strength of a woman is
unparalleled and society’s definition of
beauty often overshadows it I believe
that not only are we strong but our
differences are exactly what make us
beautiful
after all a rainbow would be pretty
boring if it was just one color and one
size thank you
you
you
about your body in this very moment are
you proud of your body or do you try to
hide it does it create stress for you
when you look in the mirror it’s your
body image holding you back from showing
up in the world as the beautiful and
powerful being that you are inside when
I started my design house st. Pucci in
1985 all my runway shows from Milan to
New York featured models in sizes eight
or ten that was the fashion industry
norm back then as time went on I noticed
an alarming trend if we had models
larger than a size two on the catwalk
the press would refuse to feature them
in their magazines in 2010 when
Swarovski asked me to design a dress
featuring their latest collection of
various shapes of crystals I came up
with this masterpiece and showed it on
the catwalks and the Waldorf Astoria in
New York as my model walked down the
runway in this creation of shimmering
crystals and intricate hand embroidery
the entire hall of more than 500 people
erupted with excitement but I was
shocked when the press ignored this
design that received standing ovations I
found out later that there had made a
deliberate editorial decision that my
model at a size six was too heavy you
see the image of a fashion model is of
great significance to our culture she is
a dream an unattainable ideal a paragon
of beauty and consequently a symbol of
oppression for many women who strive all
their lives to be like her but
inevitably fail because of the media
body dissatisfaction has become an even
a problem in recent years in Western
societies especially the ideal body is a
body that is extremely thin preferably
white of a certain shape and size the
very thin and beautiful models you see
on the catwalks on social media in
magazines are considered the most
successful and socially desirable people
on the planet did you know that most
images showing us are in fact for the
shot a model is made to look lighter
taller skinnier and her skin tone is
perfected sometimes to the point of
being unrecognizable
oddly enough of the more than 15,000
women I have personally worked with over
the years most were between sizes 10 and
18 the reality is that the average size
worn by a woman in the United States is
size 14 now Society standards of an
ideal body doesn’t only apply to women
but to men as well the male physique is
often portrayed as chiseled and
shirtless in various men’s magazines
such as men’s health and others causing
a feeling of embarrassment and non
masculinity in men and driving so many
to drug and alcohol abuse and steroid
use women are not only expected to look
thin but also to look young all the age
and wrinkles are frowned upon so many
teenagers and young women will do
anything to alter their bodies either
going through your your dieting or going
under the knife and cosmetic surgery
today girls as young as 13 are getting
Botox to freeze their youthful
appearance it doesn’t matter what they
do or how beautiful and accomplished
they are more still feel they are not
good enough I should know because I was
one of them even at the age of three
was constantly compared to the females
in my family they were very very fair
and I was very dark complexioned I still
remember this parrot green colored frog
that both I and my cousin owned and
unlike her I wasn’t allowed to wear mine
all I could do was look at it longingly
as his date hanging in my closet so many
restrictions were placed on me because
of how I looked that shame and the
feeling of not measuring up to others
perception of beauty stayed with me for
decades it turned me into an introvert
and I became comfortable hiding in my
own little world pouring my energy into
my studies I became an overachiever
hoping that by showing my
accomplishments I would be loved even at
the height of my success deep inside I
never felt deserving or worthy it didn’t
matter how many shiny objects I had the
latest fashion or the greatest
achievements and awards
I felt incomplete I looked for
validation outside me at my work in my
relationships in acquisitions it was
exhausting and then the car accident
happened this was March 2015
I was a passenger in the car that tried
to run a red light at an intersection
the car was totaled the driver came away
unscathed the airbag deployed and hit me
and my chest caved in I couldn’t breathe
and for almost eight months I couldn’t
even lie down to sleep that was a
wake-up call so many things could have
gone wrong but for the grace of God
every waking moment was spent sending
love to my body I would scan my body
from head to toe and thanking every cell
every limb every organ for being there
for me my body became my best friend
it took an accident for me to realize my
body is a mirror
I look at my past now and say that’s my
past my past is only as powerful as how
I perceive it and the meaning I give it
we live in a society that would have us
conform we look at other people’s lives
and their body and the image and we
compare ourselves with them you know
they show us the polished version and
it’s talks this desire to have the right
body the right image the right fashion
and one day we wake up and we realize
what an empty existence that is you
can’t win that game you just cannot win
it it doesn’t matter how hard you pedal
there’s always going to be somebody with
a better body a bigger house a hotter
partner it’s quite Hollow stop the
comparison game and look at yourself and
your body and fall in love with the
beautiful and the less beautiful your
body is a miracle now I would like to
ask you again it’s your body image
holding you back are you stuck in a
limiting belief that you are not good
enough if so I would like to offer you a
framework that if you were to follow
would help change your limiting beliefs
there are three steps the first step is
to identify your limiting beliefs in my
opinion this is the hardest step of all
because you have to go back in time
somewhere someone some event trigger
that in you and you must deep dive into
your subconscious and bring it to the
surface the second step is to weaken the
existing limiting beliefs because if you
don’t do this any new belief that you
put on top will not stick
compare that to a mouldy wall you want
to put new wallpaper but unless you
clean off the mold first the mold will
continue to grow underneath the new
wallpaper so as you go through the
second step
ask yourself this belief that you have
is this really true then there is a
third step sorry this is where you
replace your old beliefs with new ones
that won’t limit you you can do this
through affirmations visualizations and
even vision boards but you must go
through the first two steps in order to
succeed here
the third step has helped me the most
and I would like to share with you a
method I use to strengthen my new belief
every single day I wake up in the
morning and I meditate I light incense
and a walk through my home blessing each
room in the hallway is a large mirror
where I stop for a long moment I look at
my reflection in the mirror I look
deeply into my eyes and I say to myself
Ronny you are beautiful you are
brilliant I love you I love you very
very very much
love appreciate and accept your body
your body is your best friend your body
is a miracle the strength of a woman is
unparalleled and society’s definition of
beauty often overshadows it I believe
that not only are we strong but our
differences are exactly what make us
beautiful
after all a rainbow would be pretty
boring if it was just one color and one
size thank you
you
you
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