ROAD TO RECOVERY
Rachael Finch has something personal she’d like to share. If you’re one of her 298K followers on Instagram, you’ll know it’s been more than a year since the Kissed Earth co-founder and model had her explant surgery, a procedure to remove breast implants. But what Rachael hasn’t spoken openly about in depth before is that removing her implants was the final piece in healing her relationship with her body.
On the eve of her 34th birthday in July, Rachael reflects on the “rollercoaster journey” of her body image issues, which began when she was 15 and led to disordered eating. Before this, she’d been quite a sporty kid growing up in Townsville, participating in athletics and aspiring to compete at the Olympics in long jump and the 200-metre sprint. “Honestly, I felt like that was my path, ” she says. Then, after entering a modelling competition, life took her in a totally different direction.
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