"I've had negative comments before and obviously it's very easy to ignore them. Positivity can be considered so cliché or silly, but I just have a better life that way. But this was coupled with this little girl I had seen on my Explore page on Instagram. She had posted a picture of herself in a bathing suit saying she had never been courageous enough before to do this. And boom, negative comments! I was so saddened by it and then I posted my picture a few days later and that went down and I thought: How interesting. Here I am in the public eye and I get it. I am at anybody's fingertips to criticize, to condemn, or to bring down. But what about that little girl? Does she have people around her to lift her up when that hits her the way it can still hit me at 31? Does she have the tools, that thank God I was given by my mom and my dad, to combat those feelings that present inside your soul? I don't know. So I was like, we need to start opening this dialogue because sh*t's not cool. It's just not cool."
