Kristin Cavallari reveals mantra has helped her go from teen 'mess' to 'comfortable in her skin'
Fashion designer and businesswoman Kristin Cavallari has told how she feels "comfortable" in her skin nowadays, 22 years after being "a mess" during her late teens.
Kristin Cavallari feels "comfortable" in her skin, after being "a mess" during her late teens.
The 39-year-old fashion designer and businesswoman - who founded lifestyle brand Uncommon James in 2017 - has told how she used to feel "really insecure", but she is now "at peace and happy", thanks to a special mantra she regularly tells herself.
She said on the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast: "When I look back at like 17-year-old me, I was a mess.
"And I was ultimately really insecure. And so, like, my biggest thing that I've had to learn over the last however many years is like a mantra that I used to tell myself is, 'I am whole.'
"I've had to learn that I am whole, just like we all are. We all are enough. But I have a narcissistic dad.
"And I think it really affected me, and I always felt like nothing was ever good enough. I was never enough.
"And that's ultimately been like my healing journey. That carries over into business and to everything else that I'm doing.
"I think now where I'm sitting in front of you, I can tell you I'm very much comfortable in my skin.
"I'm at peace. I'm happy. I do feel whole.
"And I think the difference is in my early 20s, we'll say, I was working so hard and chasing all of these things that ultimately never fulfilled me."
Former The Hills star Kristin - who has three children, Camden Jack, 13, Jaxon, 12, and Saylor, 10, with her ex Jay Cutler - "loves working" and she has huge plans for her Uncommon James business.
She added: "I found my worth in my resume, where now it's very different.
"I actually feel like I'm good. Like I can almost kick back.
"But I do have that fire in me still. I'm a Capricorn. I do love working.
"And I, you know, I get so much out of it. But it's a different sort of chase now that I find, where now it's more just like, I know what I'm capable of.
"And there's so much more that I want to do with Uncommon James or whatever else it may be, where before I was like chasing this open-ended thing that was never going to fulfil me."
