unapologetically me.

Whether it’s on the surface, or buried deep, everyone has been on their own unique journey with their body image.

Sometimes it comes from external pressure to look a certain way – be it social media, magazines, peers or family. But sometimes it can just come from within – you look in the mirror one day, and for one reason or another, you realise you don’t like what you see.

This latest documentary titled ‘unapologetically me’, featuring athletes Bronte Elsmore, Lilz Suesue, Skyler Peebles, Mikaela Di Blasio, Lexi Ellis and Alex Hall, aims to tackle body image head on.

With an open floor for discussion, these incredible women get vulnerable – sharing their own experience with body image throughout different stages of their life, and how they have overcome each of their unique challenges.

This documentary was designed to empower women to be unapologetically themselves; confident in who they are and strong – whatever that looks like for them.

As was the aim with our previous documentary around men’s mental health – Don’t Wait – if this campaign inspires even just one person to speak up… then it’s mission success for us.

“I think this entire project has been an incredible journey of listening.
With our documentary last year, ‘Don’t Wait’, a lot of what went into that documentary was a part of myself and a part of all of the mental health struggles I had been going through at the time, so all of it came so naturally.

It was an entirely different case with unapologetically me. While I definitely identified with a lot of the topics here – body image, mental health – I wanted to make sure we were telling this story right. So a lot of what happened at the start was listening to those around me – seeking to understand from so many others.

As I started to ask questions and have conversations about where this documentary was going to go, the responses were all so unique and each story was completely different in its own right. Bar one thing; the common theme in every response was the feeling of not being good enough.

So this documentary was created for those people – everyone who has at one point or another felt inadequate – this is for you.

We hope you take as much out of it as these incredible 6 athletes put into it.”
– Elliott Sauvage (Director)