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Marciel Hopkins (26) is no ordinary model. She makes you think differently about beauty and weight, and most importantly, about self-acceptance. What this former Miss. SA finalist already understands and understands about self-esteem in her 20's, something that many women have been struggling with for life and so she wants to share her story as far as possible and help women find true love - the love for themselves.
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Hopkins was a student of psychology at Stellenbosch University in 2015 when the journey began that would change her life. Since school she dreamed of making her name as an international model. But with a size 14-pants and a body full of curves that left the scale at 81kg, she was pleased that it wasn't her favorite. To a previous participant in Miss. SA saw something in her and encouraged her to participate.
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However, it was made clear to her from the start: She should have lost drastic weight - no participant in Miss. SA can be a size 14. And she only had four months to do this.
"I was determined to do so," she says. “I got up early in the day to do cardio and before class and after class I trained with a personal coach. Then we would do lower body or upper body. I didn't put my mouth on sugar, fat or alcohol. I was extremely strict with my diet - no reason was a good enough reason to transgress. "
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Even a long-time visit to family in Europe with her parents did not put her off, she says. She saw France, Germany and Belgium without tasting one pain au chocolat. Her holiday is characterized by early risers to exercise and then eat her fat-free natural yoghurt while her family feasts on freshly baked croissants.
Marciel Hopkins during her Miss. SA experience. (Photo: Instagram)
"I was so unhappy, especially because it felt like I was making the rest of my family's vacation bad by being so obsessive about what I was eating. At the same time, I knew how little time I had before Ms. SA closes. I would never have time to catch up if I let my diet go for a few weeks. I had to push through. ”
And she was full of pressure. Then she the day before the Miss. SA competition on the scale, her lean 1,78m body weighed a mere 67kg and was able to fit her new tiny butt in a number 10 pants.
The Miss. SA travel was a whirlwind of photo shoots, travel and appearances on occasions and through it all she had to retain her perfect figure. "If we had to get on the bus at 6am, the other girls got up at 5:30 am to do their hair and make-up and be ready at 6am. I got up at 4am to practice before I could fix for the day, ”Marciel says.
"The other girls were also slim, of course, while I wasn't washing and I couldn't even slip my diet for a moment. Some mornings ate some of their waffles with cream for breakfast and then I eat an egg white omelette. The pressure was never ending. ”
Over the course of a total of 11 months, Hopkins quickly moved through the laps of the competition until eventually she was one of 12 top finalists. "Ever in my back I knew, if I didn't win, I wouldn't be able to sustain this lifestyle. It was unbearable, ”she admits.
Suddenly the Miss. SA competition for her. She fell out in the finals and went home without the crown. "What now?" She asked herself. Where does she go from here?
One of the comparative photos that Marciel shared on social media - on the left is the Miss. SA competition and right with a fuller figure and a happier heart. (Photo: Instagram)
"The Lord had a plan"
Back in the Cape she continued her normal life. She started au pair in the Mother City to earn an income and plans to enroll for her master's degree the following year. Slowly but surely the kilograms crept back and it wasn't long before she had to get her size 14 pants out of the closet again.
It was emotionally a very difficult time, she says. "There were so many people who gave me Miss. SA journey followed and supported me. I felt like I was disappointed by just picking up the weight again - as if all my hard work was free. My model dreams faded and I didn't know what to do next. I just wanted to delete all my profiles on social media and hide it for the world. "
Fortunately, her dreams were greater than the wave of uncertainty and self-doubt that threatened to engulf her. Hopkins decided to appeal to local model agencies. Maybe there was a future for her in the industry.
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A few doors slammed into her face before one agency agreed to take her as a curve model. She actually fell into a niche market, she explains. She was not small enough for ordinary model work and not really big enough to be a plus size model - these models are usually 18 or more in size. She was therefore classified as a curve model and started working on a portfolio.
Hence the work began to flow. Before she could erase her eyes, she was on an airplane on the way to Germany. Then London, New York, Las Vegas and the Maldives. A new world opened to her and she grabbed it with both hands.
But it was a social media placement in 2016 that had turned her world upside down. A typical "before and after" weight loss photograph - just the other way around.
Marciel Hopkins. (Photo: Instagram)
Marciel posted a photo of her lean body in 2015 next to a photo of her curve body a year later. She wrote openly about her remorse with her weight and her eventual realization that the figure on the scale does not determine her worth or happiness. That she eventually knows she's more than enough regardless of what she weighs or what the number on her pants label is; that her weight can never be more important than her character, intelligence or ability. And that she now lives a purposeful life that is not linked to what she looks like.
The reaction was amazing. Her entry was shared thousands of times, the phone was constantly ringing and the messages flowed into her inbox. She says many of them were congratulations to her for sharing this picture; others were women who shared their own sadness and unhappiness about their weight. Some opened to her about their eating disorders and told her well what they had never told anyone else.
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Without knowing it, she touched on an aspect that people wanted to talk about all over the world - someone just had to get up and start the conversation.
“I didn't even get through Miss. South Africa got so much media coverage about myself, ”Hopkins says. "It happened so naturally, I never planned it to go that big. I think the Lord had a plan to let me walk this 360 ° road. If I had just ended up in curve modeling, I would never have understood the other side. The obsession about weight, the almost eating disorder never to pick up a gram, to such an extent that you can no longer function normally. For me to understand the other side too, I had to walk that road, I had to know how it felt when the scale told you whether you were good enough this week or not. "
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She explains that through this experience she also realized how great an impact your pursuit of a particular exterior can have on your inner. “My identity has always been formed in me as a curvy girl. When I was so thin, my identity was still what it always was. If people complimented me on how lean I got, I didn't know how to handle it, because my identity wasn't built around it. I could never get my mind and body in sync around my new weight because it wasn't my identity. There were so many phases that I went through to finally find the place of complete self-acceptance and finally I could really understand what it was all about. "
Marciel Hopkins smoldering as international curve model. (Photo: Instagram)
"I want to make a difference"
Hopkins is still a successful international basket model and travels the world full of photo shoots. She is still exercising and eating healthy. But now she is happy and content with who she is and she lives a purposeful life - and she helps others to achieve the same self-acceptance.
"The passion for psychology was always there and I still wanted to make it part of my life. This led me to life coaching. I qualified myself as a life coach and can now help others. ”She emphasizes that she is not a psychologist and does not treat psychological disorders. She can help people get there where they want to be.
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"Psychology has a lot to do with how you came from where you are now and to understand why you think as you think and feel as you feel. Life coaching is outcomes-driven, to come where you want to be, ”she explains.
"I think people are attracted to someone as a life coach and I will say most of my clients are women who have lost their voice. It does not always relate to appearance - sometimes it is women who are young married and struggle to adapt in marriage. Other times, women struggle to find their place in the world of work. I walk with them a path to come to acceptance, whether it is body acceptance or in another aspect of their lives. "
Currently, the majority of her time is still in modeling, but the rest she devotes to life coaching and motivational talks. And in each of these aspects she feels that she has a purpose, that she is there to make a difference.
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“I still have a long plan with my model career and I travel very well, but I want to do more than that. On every set I go with every client I speak, I want to make a difference. There must be joy and purpose in what I do. And I found that. ”
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Marciel Hopkins spoke with Donnalee Roberts and KateRok this week to address hundreds of women at Laeveld Agrochem's Sail Safari.
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