Women's Health Australia

The Skye’s the limit

The photos you’re looking at right now of Emily Skye are significant. Not because they were taken 11 months after she gave birth to daughter Mia Elise, or that they were shot in London, where she was “unfazed by the ever-present threat of leakage”, according to our UK team. (“I made it through!” Emily said after expressing breast milk, post-shoot.) The reason these photos are important is because they represent the first time she felt like she “was enough”.

“[At photoshoots] I’ve thought, ‘I’m not lean enough, I could’ve eaten healthier or trained harder.’ This was the first time in my life I’d ever acknowledged that I looked good. Isn’t it sad?” Emily tells us. It might seem like a surprising admission from someone who’s made the Financial Review Young Rich List twice, features on a billboard in Times Square New York, and has a new app for her Emily Skye Fit program out in May (all while running beauty brand, James Cosmetics, and recording podcast You Can on the side). Yet, her 2.5 million Instagram followers are used to that kind of honesty from the star trainer. As she gets

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