I was nicknamed ‘twiglet’ for having a flat chest and skinny body – but its made me fortune
PEOPLE come in all shapes and sizes but sadly, many of us still struggle to accept our bodies as they are.
Fed up of cruel comments about her flat chest, one woman has embraced her petite frame and has even created her own company help others do the same.
Like many of us, Leah Godfrey struggled to accept her body as a teen.
Growing in rural Ireland, the now-34-year-old would saw her friends’ bodies change whilst she remained virtually the same.
As she went through puberty, others started to make the young girl feel even more insecure about her slim frame.
“People were making fun of me,” she recalled, adding: “There was skinny shaming. People said ‘you look really skinny’, ‘are you anorexic?’ and ‘are you eating enough?’”
Leah was also taunted about her flat chest, with people regularly commenting on her small 30A breasts and nicknaming her ‘twiglet’.
“I was told ‘guys are not going to want you if you don’t have boobs’,” she revealed: “I thought there is something wrong with me.”
Desperate to change her body, the Irish woman started to wear padded bras but it wasn’t enough to boost her confidence.
It was only after family members suggested more drastic options that the then-15-year-old started considering plastic surgery.
Leah even went as far as having a consultation at 17, but something kept her from going through with the procedure.
It was only years later that she realised why she’d never gone under the knife.
As she entered her twenties, the young woman began her body positivity journey and worked with a counselor – which is when she had a shocking breakthrough.
“I didn’t go through with breast surgery because I didn’t want to – I just thought I needed to,” she said, adding: “I realised the negative feelings I had about my body were not my opinion.”
After this, Leah also discovered that her insecurities hadn’t just come from friends and family but also from the clothes she wore.
“Even as a confident woman, going shopping still makes me feel bad. 80 per cent of it doesn’t fit,” she explained.
Keen to help others love their bodies as she did, the Leah launched her clothing company My Style Diary in 2021.
Specially designed for flat chested women, Leah hopes the brand will mean no other woman has to struggle as she did.
The fashion brand’s first dress has also been released this year, which is a specially designed bodycon dress with smaller cups.
Leah even hopes to launch a bra next year.
She told press: “This brand comes from my feelings but it’s about something much bigger.
“Hopefully no girl who receives this dress will need to put something in the cup because of gapping.”
Having spent years grappling with her own insecurities, the mum-of-three says she now ‘appreciates’ her petite frame and said: ““My body does so much….It’s made for me.”