Melinda Gates’s toxic university romance left a lasting impact on her body image.
The philanthropist shared a new interview that began to feel aware of her body in high school, and only intensified after her with her boyfriend not identified at the University of Duke.
“[It] It really wasn’t a positive relationship for me, “he said in Monday’s episode or” The Jamie Kern Lima Show. “
“Hello, I cared a lot how I saw myself and told myself many things about it, and that really is not right. It really isn’t.”
Gates admitted that he played “too much time” to break things and had already “instilled many of those messages” when his relationship ended.
“I would say that he carried out my 20 years and even my 30,” he said. “And it was probably until I reached the 40 years that I had more agreement with what it was.”
Now 60 years, Gates said he looks at his body in a different light.
“I want to be in the form ’cause that I want to be able to do all the things I want,” he explained. “I want to be healthy, but I am not so concentrated in, you know, I am a weight or weight and? Or adjusted in that size of pants or another?”
“It is still there on the back of my head, but it is no longer a great decision,” he added.
The billionaire said that when you released from a sense of “perfectionism around weight and body image” you have much more mental space “and peace.
Gates said he worked with “several different nutritionists” and a therapist to better understand his “anxiety” around his body.
While the goal was to improve his own quality of life, he also wanted to teach his daughters, 28 -year -old Jennifer, and Phoebe, 22, the importance of self -love.
“I also got to a point where I realized that I was modeling my daughters,” he continued. “It was really important to work on this in myself, so I did any of them and, therefore, when they had bodily problems, they could come to me and could be honest with them.”
In addition to obtaining help from professionals, Gates said that focusing on work also helped heal their relationship with his body.
“The data show that if women are working and doing a significant job, they focus less on body image,” he shared, “that, again, how beautiful is to be able to put that energy and that time on things that they mind doing around the world?”
Shortly after graduating from the university, Gates with his future husband, Bill Gates, in 1987 at a Microsoft sales meeting in New York City, where he was a product manager and he was the CEO.
The couple, who also shares his son Rory, 25, committed himself in 1993 and married a year later. However, they surprised the world in 2021 when they announced their divorce.
In his next memoirs, “the next day,” Melinda writes that Count Bill who wanted a divorce was one of the “most scary” things he has ever had to do. While the 69 -year -old computer engineer was understandable “sad and annoying”, he was also “comprehensive and respectful” of the decision.
The ex have coined a “friendly” dynamic and look “from time to time” in family events.