Bellas story
My name is Bella and I am, I was, an actress, because with Covid I have basically stayed home for more months.
I finished my last job in February last year, as a protagonist in a theater, and I was on tour with a beautiful monologue, where I played five characters alone, in my opinion the peak of my career, which then collapsed disastrously thanks to this pandemic.
The first time I met Rosy was 30 years ago: she came here for the first time because I had to debut at the Tods festival in 1998.
This job, which I chose since I was very young, is a job that always puts you in constant comparison with the image of your body that you offer, especially when you go on stage, to the people who come to watch you and this often puts you in difficulty, because you know that you will be looked at completely even particularly, in all your splendid dazzling or stretched shape, depending on the moment, on your age.
And so I was very young, a little chubby, I have always had a few problems with my body, because I have always been a little imperfect, like everyone, but a perfectionist, therefore a disaster and so thirty years ago I came here for the first time and obtained surprising results so much so that my antagonist colleague at the festival, years and years later, confessed to me that she was struck by the fact that I did not have even a hint of cellulite.
The problem is that then life went on, the career went forward, even backwards, stop and go, because the career of the actress is always discontinuous, especially because I tried to reconcile it with a solid family life, I married a man and with him I conceived four children and therefore let’s say that I gave priority by force to other things, in the sense that I never stopped taking care of my body, but I made the mistake of trying to save money too.
And so I made a bit of diets, periods in which I managed to be in shape by stressing myself particularly, periods in which everything collapsed ruinously, well, in short, the things that all women do, even trying to save money. And this is the mistake, in my opinion, the main one, because where there is a very low price, there is certainly no quality.
After thirty-odd years, in this lockdown I found myself completely losing any inhibitions regarding kneading, eating, experimenting, sugaring, whipping, maturing, baking and I learned to make cakes, because I’m from Kent and I do it very well… I got to weigh almost 61 kg (basically I’m 164, I should weigh a maximum of 55).
Last summer I started an online course with a personal trainer, with a particular diet, obtaining the goal of 58 kg with a lot of sacrifices and I haven’t moved from there.
I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror anymore. Also, because 50 years of age are approaching, a crisis also arrives. I know that it’s quite stupid to still not be comfortable in your body at 50 after having had four children, and therefore, the signs it bears are also signs of a lot of effort; but I wasn’t feeling well at all. In short, I had let myself go, and even in this second lockdown, I couldn’t get out.
I tried to start intermittent fasting again, the things that I was doing on my own. Still, I couldn’t budge from those 58 that were starting to become 59, 60 and one day going on the internet I came across an advertisement with a testimony like the one I’m giving today, very authentic, very beautiful, from a woman who had been here to Rosy. I remembered that I already knew this place. If it was still here, after thirty years, maybe there was a person in the world who could be trusted in this job, because always in an attempt to save money, I had already been around to do massages, new machines, new things, perhaps obtaining a worsening of my situation in sagging skin.
I can honestly say that my life has changed for the better since that day because in the meantime, I found Roberta exactly as thirty years ago. How is that possible????
That is, she recognized me, I recognized her too of course, then they remembered me, that is, I was in their archive and so I was pleased with the great seriousness, I found that very professional, intimate but serious approach, determined to bring you to your goal.
We had a long chat, she examined my case very well, making a real anamnesis also of the disastrous path that I had taken up to that moment and she proposed a path with her that initially scared me because it was quite long, that is, in the sense that each type of meeting was structured in a certain type, that is, she explained to me very well what we could do together, she came to meet me, because, I’m not ashamed of it, not having worked for a year even economically my situation was not exactly happy.
It can be done, I did it, I started and almost finished this path, noticing a huge physical, mental transformation… I really think that after a long time I have learned to love my body, because the approach that Rosy gives with such serenity without ever stressing you but telling you “together we can do it” and supporting you with competent, attentive people, people who do not look at you as a client, but more as a patient, have a truly therapeutic approach towards you.
Rosy made me take this leap, teaching me self-care, the first thing they teach you here: taking care of your body by yourself at home by providing you with the tools to do it, teaching you how to do it and this is the first time it happens to me because usually they tell you “come here at a certain time we’ll manipulate you a bit then you go home” yes, you see results but they don’t last because you don’t change your lifestyle.
Here I would like to make a special note of merit for Kelly, Rosy’s daughter because: a graduate in philosophy but a very prepared nutritionist, she shocked me the first time, because, without knowing it, I asked her a question about my Inositol something… she said everything, she knew everything, I said: “but this is a genius” then I reconstructed, I understood that she was Rosy’s daughter and well, I was really moved to see how this family business is so well structured, so full of positive values that are transmitted to the people who frequent this place.
One thing that had struck me was that Easter had finally arrived and I could finally eat pastiera (because I had Rosy’s permission) in short, exceeding having achieved the goals… Well, do you know that I was sick two days after Easter? because all that sugar, that eating disorder that took me back in an instant to my past of eating disorders, disturbed me and I couldn’t wait to start walking again in this cleanliness, purity of foods that enter my body and thoughts that form, of relationship with my body, which is finally a relationship of well-being.
So this place goes beyond a simple beauty center in which to fight cellulite, it is really changing your attitude towards yourself.
When you leave here you feel reborn and now I weigh less than 54 kg from 61, I started on February 17, but above all the products that they provided me for self-care allowed me not to have a collapse, which confirms Newton’s law on my body, but perhaps gravity can be fought.