Malin Andersson proudly posed in a grey glittering bikini for new Instagram snaps taken in the rain on Thursday.
The former Love Island star, 31, looked happy and confident in the two-piece as she wrote about embracing ‘natural beauty’.
While posing in a forest on a balcony, Malin displayed several tattoos on her body as she enjoyed a moment of liberation.
She penned: ‘To me beauty is natural, if you’re naturally yourself… you’re beautiful.’
The influencer has been open about her struggles with her six-year battle with eating disorders in the past, sharing a photo of herself at 18 when she weighed just eight stone.
Malin Andersson stood confidently in a grey glittering bikini as she posed up a storm for Instagram snaps in the rain on Thursday
The former Love Island star, 31, posed from different angles as she showed how far she has come
She wrote: ‘I stumbled across this when I went through my old photos. In this photo I’m 18, weigh about 8 stone and didn’t eat. That sums it up about right.
‘As you can see I’m dead behind the eyes, and the only joy that came my way was my grumbling stomach, that control of pounds dropping each day.
‘These were the days I wanted to start “modelling” and got lost in beauty pageants. These were also the days where Malin no longer existed and my soul didn’t shine.
‘You see, I’ve spoken about my eating disorders, laxative abuse, calorie counting etc.. but the binge eating I feel was the worst for me. It was a vicious cycle of:
‘Malin goes to shop, buys a ton of junk food which she deprived herself with, went home secretly to her bedroom, stuffed her face until she felt sick & then went straight to the toilet to throw it up and get it out of her system.
‘Malin then weighs herself to make sure all is out, she then feels guilt shame and lack of awareness to the life around her.
‘Malin feels depressed goes to sleep hungry wakes up wanting to do it all over again. This. Was. My. Life.’
In August this year, Malin was rushed to hospital due to a flare up of her irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
While posing in a forest on a balcony, Malin displayed her several tattoos on her body and wrote: ‘To me beauty is natural, if you’re naturally yourself… you’re beautiful’
She penned: ‘To me beauty is natural, if you’re naturally yourself… you’re beautiful.’
The influencer has been open about her struggles with her six-year battle with eating disorders in the past, sharing a photo of herself at 18 when she weighed just eight stone
She said: ‘I developed IBS in my teenage years, after struggling with my self image I abused laxatives to empty out my body.
‘I remember waking up each day with awful cramps and having to go toilet just so I could ‘look and feel skinnier’.’
Malin has spent 2023 focusing on her health and ‘internal healing’, after welcoming her daughter, Xaya, in January 2022.
She’s since embarked on a healthy lifestyle and Malin has spoken about the brutal trolling she received on Instagram following her recent weight loss, despite being clear about doing it in a healthy way and feeling better than ever.
The former Love Island star recalled that she has ‘never known anything like it’ since making a healthy lifestyle change.
Her first daughter Consy was born seven weeks premature in December 2018 and was treated at London’s Great Ormond Street hospital, but sadly passed away on 22 January 2019.