Hey awesome ones. so I don't know about you, but yep I got thicker across the
middle as I got older and as most of you know I used to be a 1980s model and you
would think that that would not be okay with me, but you know what, you know
what's not okay with me? Running to the gym every day working out trying to get
that flat stomach and having wrinkles all over the place it's just not okay
with me anymore. So in this video I'm gonna keep it real I'm gonna show my
tummy a little bit and you know and how to hide it....that whole thing and truly this is
not a body shaming video at all, as a matter of fact it's probably completely
the opposite. I love my curves, now you know I feel so much more healthy and my
little curviness I kind of like it and you know what? I feel so much better than
when I used to be eating just carrots before a modeling job. So now I'm
exercising. I'm really trying to eat right but the bloating and you know the
little folds they still show up.... so what to do? My top ten hiding tips are coming
up just in a couple of seconds.
So my number one tip and actually this tip actually has two tips in it.....don't
wear clothes that are too clingy and also don't wear clothes with a
horizontal stripe in them, because you're just accentuating your waistline and we
don't want tha.t Now my number two tip is of course shapewear. But I wanted to show
you the kind of shapewear that I wear. I have these in both a beige and
also black and you can see that you can roll it up in the tummy and that's
really quite nice. I also wear a very thin pair of briefs underneath, you know
it's just for the longevity of the shapewear to keep it a little bit
lasting longer. A lot of you have asked me where do I get this shapewear
and what I'm going to do is in the first comment I'll link back to the blog and
I'm gonna have a link there for a number of the items in here and especially the
shapewear that's there....and oh by the way we make a little bit of Commission on
that so thank you so much for that because it does help the channel. So my
number 3 tip for really slimming the look of your stomach is these
high-waisted pants and as you can see they've got a lovely waistband. They're
also stretchy....I also have these in jeans and I've shown them before to you. I
absolutely love them. I like to have them in a darker jean look like a darker blue.
I just find it's a little bit more slimming, but it's stretchy as well and I
absolutely love them. Now I'm also going to show you a pair of jeans that are hip
huggers here.....and as you can see oh boy the little muffin top starts to show so
let's not be wearing those hip huggers and let's go for the high waist
it'll tuck everything in a little bit more. So.....so my fourth tip is
especially with some t-shirts and that sort of thing, kind of Blousen, I think
that's the word anyway, 'Blouson' the tee shirt a little bit and I even like to
tuck it in a little bit at the side and I'm.... I'm almost giving myself a little
bit of 'Ruching' there and hiding my tummy. Now you'll see in this photo where I
just sort of tuck the t-shirt in aah....the muffin top showing again. So don't want
that....So my fifth tip is to buy clothing like this top right here with some extra
ruching. It's kind of like with the extra folds there.....to hide kind of your extra
folds. It's great if you get it in a dress or a blouse or something like that and
they're very super comfortable because you don't have to keep breathing in. So
my number six goes along with that last blouse or shirt that I was wearing and it's,"'Put a
camisole underneath'....and I actually do have a camisole underneath this and what
it does is it just sort of pulls everything together. Now the camisoles
that I have are not shapewear they're not, you know, doing this to me at all.
They're very...very lightweight. I'm going to show you the white one that I have. I
also have it in black. You can see that it's very very light weight and it holds
everything in and yet it you can hardly even feel that you're wearing an
undergarment. I just love them. So my seventh tip is to wear over tops. Now
even in the summertime you could wear a sleeveless top and wear something nice
and flowy like this and it doesn't matter whether the sleeveless top
underneath is....is purple or yellow or white or black that little over-top
there, you know every once and a while you kind of pull it in front a little bit and it
just gives you that confidence. So the eighth tip is elongate your look. Alright
so what you want to do with this is...you may want to wear a little bit of a heel
the same color as your pants even a kitten heel will really do
and try to keep the look, if you have an over-top, underneath all the same, so yeah
sometimes I'm working with the black and I've got a black top black pants black
kitten heels and it's really bringing the eye up and down as opposed to side
to side. Another little trick is to use some longer jewelry because when you do
that..... again the eye is set up and down and not side to side. So my ninth tip is....
Empire Waist. Hey there's a lot of dresses and blouses out there that have
an empire waist and if you're going to a restaurant and you know when you get
that bloated feeling.... hey it happens doesn't it....or even before you go to the
restaurant, but with this dress that I'm wearing here....really the belt was
supposed to go around the waist, but what I do is I bring it up and I put it just
underneath the the bust-line here and I can breathe a lot easier and I still
think it looks quite pretty. So the tenth and final tip is....'Where your
size.' Now when I started gaining weight around my middle the first thing I did
was I started looking at the plus-sized clothing. I literally.... I'm not even lying,
I bought 2x clothing and I thought oh this feels so much better because nobody
can see my waistline and remember being a model....like you're super self-conscious
about this. All I did was I looked baggy. I looked unflattering. I looked tent like
and if you remember the fourth tip about just tucking in a little bit and you
know maybe making it blouson a little bit in the front, it's so much better and
you know what. Show off your curves you don't need to hide
behind something that big and trust me you'll look much more flattering doing
that. So the whole reason for this video was to really help to build some
confidence for you by hiding some of those bulges or bloating. I urge
you to stay healthy maintain, you know some kind of a healthy weight, but please
don't try to be super skinny.....skinny model type,
because when I was a model I was bulimic and I know firsthand how unhealthy that
can be.So go out and be proud of who you are and of course this is the time we
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