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You Can Be Both: Gym Lover and Girly
I think they’re this weird misconception out there that you have to be one or the other. Either a gym girl or a girly girl. Especially in the world I’m in, the Oylpic Lifting world. But I find myself falling into both categories. For a while, this wasn’t always the case for me.
I remember back in the day when I was just working as a photographer and I felt this immense pull to just be this one type of person. Just a photographer and I could only do that. I could only fall into this one stereotype. It wasn’t till I got a little older that I noticed I could be multi-passionate. So I added fitness back into my life and made it a career. It made me a more interesting person as a whole and made me happier.
Now I am still doing both, fitness and photography. But I found myself falling into another stereotype. The hard-core gym lover. I had completely let go of my side that enjoyed going out, getting dressed up, and enjoying things like makeup. I felt like, in order to be taken seriously in the gym world I had to give all that up. Now unlike before, it took me years to notice that I was losing myself to a stereotype that didn’t fit me. This time I noticed much quicker. And that my friends is growth and maturity. Thankfully!
But my moral of the story is this, if you are a gym lover and you’re girly. I’m here to tell you it’s okay, that you can be both, enjoy both, and still be taken seriously in your profession or the gym. We can do whatever our hearts desire, we can follow our own path.
