How Busy Philipps teaches her kids about body confidence. If you follow Busy Philipps on Instagram, you know how open she is about certain topics, whether it’s parenting, panic attacks or sugar cravings.

The actress has opened up about how she tried to teach her children about body confidence by ditching the scales and working out everyday.

Speaking to Shape magazine, she said: “I stopped weighing myself a long time ago because it was driving me crazy. I knew it was doing me a disservice on a daily basis. I’m also a person who retains water – I fluctuate a ton and that was normal and I was getting fixated on it in a way that was not normal. “

“I was thinking that I needed to control my normal monthly fluctuations and you can’t. So I got rid of it. Now feeling good in clothes is mostly how I judge whether I’m feeling great or not. And I find no shame in any size anymore. I used to. You can’t get stuck on that either.”

And although she has a hectic home and professional life, Busy will always make sure to exercise daily as it’s important to her wellbeing.

“I do LEKFit when in LA. I’m obsessed with it. It’s a mini trampoline workout, and you also use ankle weights and 5-pound arm weights.” She explained.

“Exercising has really helped me so much, so I do make sure that I make time for that every morning, even if it means I have to move that meeting cause I have to go do my workout, you know? It’s non-negotiable for me and that is directly tied to my mental health. It’s not even about [my weight], but just the way I feel. I know that if I make it to that workout every day, that’s the one priority that I have set for myself.”

She also makes a point to walk around her house in her underwear so that her kids can see that their mother is happy with her body.

She said: “I do like my body in a lot of ways and struggle with my own confidence about my body, but I will always wear a bikini if I want to. I’ll always like walk around in my underwear in front of my girls. I want them to see me comfortable in my body. I feel like that’s really important. Even if I’m in a moment where I’m not really feeling as great about myself as I wish I were. And I refuse to Facetune and have never trimmed my body up for Instagram or whatever. I will use a filter; I do love a filter. But I try to be really aware of that.”