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So, she decided to deviate from the fairytale and talk truth about her skincare struggles.
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“I guess I got sick of feeling like I was the only one,” she says. “When I have a breakout, I feel the urge to tell people, ‘Yes, I know my skin is breaking out.’ It’s a way to help me feel better about when I express my frustration about it to other people. It’s like, ‘Yes, I’m aware my skin looks bad.Trust me, I know.’ Acknowledging it gets it out of the way. Then we can move past it.”
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Since she’s so open about her skincare challenges in real life, she wanted to share that approach with her online community, which includes 12 million followers onInstagramand 2.16 million followers onTwitter.
“I find it therapeutic sharing that with my fans because it made me feel like it was OK when I broke out,” Reinhart explains of opening up on social media. “It also shows other people that it’s OK to break out.” (Her candidness also landed her a gigpromoting Dermalogica products.)
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What really helps is the fact that she doesn’t let the haters get her down.
Instead, she’s choosing to focus on the upsides of having an engaged community of millions at her fingertips.
“I’m training myself to move past [the negativity] and focus on the good and the positive that people are sending me because there is so much more of that than there is negativity,” she says. “It doesn’t faze me at all anymore if someone says something s—— on my social media or tweets something nasty to me.”
Her evolution to self-assuredness happened quite organically, she admits.
“I don’t know how I’ve gotten to this point, but it truly bounces off my back,” she says. “I think it’s because I’m confident in myself, I’m confident in my relationship, in my friendships and in my talent that I know that what they’re saying isn’t true. I don’t feel insecure at this point in my life, which makes it a lot easier to say f— off to whoever is trying to bring me down.”
“I’m sure this feeling is going to ebb and flow,” she says. “There will not always be times when it rolls off my back, like if I’m ever going through a very personal struggle and I’m feeling insecure. It will happen.”
Reinhart adds, “But I’m at the point right now where I let it roll off my back, and that feels nice.”
source: people.com
