Kelsey Wells says she doesn't have a lot of regrets in her life, but there is one that pulls at her heartstrings whenever she thinks about it. "I try not to believe in regretting anything," the fitness trainer and internet personality tells 9honey. "But I think the one clear regret that I do have is I only have one child, and I feel like I was in such a poor mental health place with my distorted body image and negative self-talk that I feel like I missed the miracle of growing my baby .
" READ MORE: What Tiffiny Hall wants to teach her kids about food and exercise Wells' voice cracks with sadness as we speak over the phone. "I was so fixated on all the so-called flaws that diet culture told me were wrong with me, you know, gaining weight, seeing veins, getting stretch marks, getting more visible cellulite, like all of these things," Wells continues. "I was so preoccupied with that that I was unable to marvel at what my body was doing and that's hard for me to think about to this day.
" Wells has one child, her son Anderson who is now 10 years old, and in the decade that has passed since his birth, she has made a concerted effort to improve her body image in the hopes that he won't experience the same struggles. "The thing that finally gave me the awareness of how unhealthy my relationship with myself and my body was, was the fact that I realised that if my son grew up and spoke to himself and treated himself the way that I was, it would break my heart," Wells says. READ MORE: �.