Paige Spiranac revealed she used to endlessly seek validation from boys when she was younger during a recent candid episode of her podcast, Playing a Round with Paige.
The golf seductress, who was voted ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ by Maxim magazine last year, admitted she spent too much time worrying about what other people thought of her and insisted the vibrant self-confidence she exudes on social media is a recently-acquired trait.
“I’m a real people pleaser and I’ve learned to overcome that through maturity and deal with people not liking you,” Paige said when asked what advice she would give to her teenaged self.
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“I think I would tell teenaged me to just not give a s***. You don’t need the popular people to like you. You don’t need to seek validation from boys … set your standards high, love yourself, be confident in who you are.”
The 29-year-old claims it had taken her “years” for her to love herself and establish “inner confidence”, as well as “years of therapy”.
“You can be so nice to people and do everything in your power to be a good person and they still might not like you, and that’s OK. Why are you chasing validation from someone who doesn’t even like you? It doesn’t make sense.
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“I used to do that growing up with boys all the time. If they didn’t like me, it almost made the chase more enticing and I was just setting myself for heartbreak and failure.”
Paige initially tried her hand at professional golf, but turned to instructing and social media influencing in 2017 after the LPGA Tour introduced a stricter dress code.
Her popularity began to soar thanks to her racy outfit choices and her provocative ‘instructing’ style, which attracted criticism from some who felt she was sexualising women’s golf. But the blonde bombshell hasn’t let any of that change her, nor the ‘feel comfortable in your own skin’ message she espouses.
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