A Russian model and influencer with KK-cup breasts admits she was bullied by peers over her naturally growing cleavage and is still shamed in the streets to this day by people who have issues with her body. Anastasia Berthier says that her large chest is 100% natural but that hasn’t stopped cruel remarks from total strangers.
- Anastasia’s chest began growing in 2006. While she used to be an A-B cup, her chest started to grow in 2006 and she ended up wearing an E-cup as an adolescent. The change in her body and her weight led to classmates referring to her as “little piggy” and “fatty” when she was only 10 and 11 years old. Why are kids so terrible? “By the age of 10 to 11, I started gaining weight which caused bullying from my family and school as well,” she recalled. “They called me fatty, our little piggy, etc. That’s when I started having complexes regarding my extra weight. That’s when I started dieting in an extreme way.”
- The bullying led to extreme anxiety. While more people paid attention to Anastasia in high school, she was hurt and humiliated by those who were less than kind. Her anxiety increased after a classmate spread the rumor that she had slept with him when she hadn’t, The Mirror reports. “I’m a person, not a body part. But one of my very anxious times as a kid was when a guy started spreading rumors that I had sex with them and created some crazy dirty stories whilst I was still virgin,” she remembered.
- She even resorted to unhealthy measures to try and shed the pounds. “I was fighting with myself for as long as I can remember because society and my family put so much pressure on me about my weight and curves,” Anastasia said. “I just couldn’t wait to lose weight, so I took forbidden pills and even used drugs just to be a small to medium size.”
- The bullying continued by people on the streets. Sadly, the rude comments didn’t stop when Anastasia left school, and people she didn’t even know would shame her in the streets over the size of her chest, which eventually grew to KK-cup. This left her struggling with her self-esteem and self-worth.
- She was scouted to be a model in 2017. Once she began doing lingerie photoshoots, Anastasia’s confidence skyrocketed and she began to feel good about her body rather than ashamed of it. Now, she’s got the last laugh, with more than 1 million followers across two Instagram accounts.
- Now she feels great about herself and empowered in her own skin. “It took me a long time and a lot of internal work on myself to accept my body. It was incredibly challenging for me to step over the complexes and standards of beauty imposed on me,” Anastasia admitted. “In Russia, a lot of things, especially society, strongly suggest that a woman is only beautiful when she has a thin body shape. Personally, what helped me was when I realized that I can never become someone else, I can’t change my body shape and turn into a long-legged thin model on a catwalk. But I could be the best version of myself, and be the beautiful woman that I am.” Good for her!
- Anastasia hopes other women can learn to love themselves more too. If she could send other women any message, it would be this: “Be yourself! Love yourself! You should look the way you want to look, not the way people want you to look, anywhere you go there will be people who will not like you. Do not starve yourself but eat healthy. Stay active. Go with your guts and you will be happy.” Great advice, girl!
