It took years for Peloton instructor Camila Ramón to make peace with her curves. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, she’s revealing how she tuned out negative comments from well-meaning family members. Along the way, she has inspired her fans to do the same.
Years after she learned to tune out well-meaning relatives commenting on her curves, the Miami-raised fitness trainer is inspiring others to do the sameMarissa Charles is PEOPLE's News Director, overseeing the off-hours news operation and collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams to direct news coverage online. Based in Los Angeles, Marissa is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience specializing in entertainment news, human interest and lifestyle stories.
From middle school onwards, the “girls” in question were the members of her dance team. She says, “I looked at myself in the mirror and I had wider hips. I thought there was something wrong with me and I would think, ‘Why can’t my hips look like the rest of the girls?’ It was very dangerous what I was doing at the time.”
“It was probably one of my biggest struggles growing up, embracing myself and my body and loving who I am and what I look like,” she says. “I think the images that we see as Latinas, especially in Latin media, is not conducive toCamila says, “As a Latina, when you go home and you visit your family there’s always this one person that comments about your body, about your relationship status.
“I got to the top of the bridge and I broke down crying because I was so frustrated about all of the workouts that I had been doing and how my body had not changed,” Camila says. “Then I turned around and looked at the ocean. I looked down at how far I’d come because it’s a steep and long bridge.
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