Reece Weaver has been a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader since 2023, and regardless of becoming into the enduring uniform 12 months after 12 months she has physique picture struggles like anybody else.
The America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders star revealed that her ups and downs with how she feels concerning her appears started as a toddler.
“In center faculty I actually began to wrestle with physique picture,” Weaver defined on the Tuesday, July 8, episode of the “Happy and Healthy” podcast. “I imply consistently as a dancer, you’re being raised up, you’re consistently taking a look at your self within the mirror. As a 3-year-old you’re taking a look at your self in a mirror.”
The skilled cheerleader confessed, “It’s very easy to do in a damaged world to go searching you and go, ‘Oh, she’s this. She has this higher energy, [that] I don’t. It’s my weak spot. I might like to have her physique, and I don’t appear to be that.’”
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To beat these inside demons, Weaver mentioned she needed to “press into” her Christian religion.
“I’m not going to imagine in what the world thinks and says I’m. I’m going to imagine in what Jesus tells me,” she shared. “I nonetheless wrestle to this present day, however I additionally know that my consolation comes from him and solely him. His opinion is the one which issues most.”
When requested whether or not her physique picture struggles “linger” whereas being a part of DCC, Weaver mentioned it’s arduous to flee them, however her teammates assist her to dam out the self-deprecating noise.
“Whenever you’re wanting round a workforce of 36 stunning, good, proficient, unimaginable girls it’s such a blessing, however it may be intimidating,” Weaver defined. “We now have such a powerful sisterhood that everyone knows deep down we’re experiencing that so we press into one another and actually depend on one another.”
Weaver, who was additionally a cheerleader on the College of Alabama, admitted that she has stumbled at occasions when fascinated by her physique compared to others.
“I nonetheless wrestle with this matter on the whole as a result of we dwell in a fallen world. That’s by no means going to go away,” she instructed podcast host Jeanine Amapola.
Now that she is a fortunately married girl and a public determine because of her time on DCC, Weaver mentioned she has a message for different women who wrestle with the identical intrusive ideas. (Weaver married Will Allman after her rookie season in April 2024.)
“I believe one of many greatest items of recommendation I can provide [is] after I take into consideration youthful Reece, youthful Reece would need a super, sensible physique. I really feel like rising up I didn’t actually have that,” Weaver recalled. “I felt just like the period that I used to be in was, ‘Oh, like, if you wish to be this it’s important to be tiny and a double zero’ and all these necessities.”
Weaver famous she would “by no means” need her future daughter to expertise these insecurities and unrealistic markers.
“So I really feel just like the extra I can take into consideration dwelling a wholesome life-style not simply bodily, however emotionally, mentally, spiritually,” she continued. “I really feel like these are what issues most.”
Weaver concluded that the “solely opinion that issues is Jesus,” and he doesn’t care about what anybody appears like.
“What issues is who you’re on the within,” Weaver added, confessing, “I’ve to remind myself that day by day although as a result of it may be arduous.”
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