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"  Gillette Ambassador Kate Upton takes on London and talks male body grooming When we met Kate Upton in her London hotel room, she was completely at ease. Stylishly covered-up in a Whistles top and Stella McCartney trousers, she accessorised with a healthy green juice and American charm. Like any unguarded 22-year-old she chatted away happily, only stopping to coo over our H&amp;amp;amp;M handbag or take a sip of her drink. Experience of her infamous swimsuit shoots and red carpet campaigning with Cameron Diaz has clearly left Kate confident in her own skin, and it glows. Having come to our capital on a gig with Gillette, she shared with us her secrets for total body confidence \u2013 from stealing men&amp;#039;s shavers to playing up her strengths. The whole hype about my body is actually about me being confident. And loving my body. I appreciate other people&amp;#039;s beauty and I appreciate my own beauty, and that&amp;#039;s what people see in me. It&amp;#039;s not about having the most amazing body, it&amp;#039;s about loving your body. Don&amp;#039;t compare yourself to others. Self-loving is about not putting yourself down and not envying other people. When you want something someone else has you&amp;#039;re actually putting down yourself. It&amp;#039;s about knowing what their strengths are and what your strengths are - and appreciating both. Everybody naturally enhances their strengths. That&amp;#039;s what grooming and taking care of yourself is all about, enhancing what you like about yourself. I&amp;#039;ve always had decent posture because I was a horse rider. Good posture shows confidence but equally being relaxed and involved in a conversation shows confidence. When posing for photos, posture comes in handy. Recently I&amp;#039;ve noticed that a lot of girls have been squatting, bending down and putting their hands on their knees for photos and it looks really bad when you do that - you always want to be taller and hold yourself up because it shows confidence and it looks nicer in photographs. Face-wise you should position your chin up and a little bit out. I don&amp;#039;t think you should ever compete with anyone besides yourself. Competing with yourself to be a better person and learning from other people is the most important thing. The best thing I learnt from Cameron Diaz was watching her. Because she has such a natural confidence and she loves herself. She doesn&amp;#039;t feel the need to cake on makeup or put in extensions. She just loves who she is and she loves and appreciates other people&amp;#039;s beauty. It&amp;#039;s so inspiring to see someone in her position be that uplifting to others and to herself. It&amp;#039;s important to know who you are and what you bring to the table.  Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton promoting The Other Woman Hair removal is a confidence-boosting thing for me. Because I wanna look nice and I care about the image that I&amp;#039;m portraying. The first thing people notice about you is how you look, so for sure, shaving is a confidence thing \u2013 but of course it&amp;#039;s not for everyone. Women are more advanced in grooming than men. We&amp;#039;re aware of how we feel secure and confident so we do something about it. Men are playing catch-up. Gilette&amp;#039;s helping them by creating cool tools like they did with the Fusion ProGlide Styler. Guys don&amp;#039;t steal my razors, I&amp;#039;m stealing theirs more! I&amp;#039;ve heard that it&amp;#039;s a no-no, but I do it! I&amp;#039;m not gonna stop! I don&amp;#039;t notice if a man&amp;#039;s hairy or not, if he&amp;#039;s confident. If you walk in and portray &amp;#039;this is how I&amp;#039;m confident&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;d be like &amp;#039;that&amp;#039;s so amazing&amp;#039;. Having a day for a facial or manicure increases your confidence. Because you feel good like you&amp;#039;ve pulled yourself together and on that day the stress of life didn&amp;#039;t get to you. Splurging on yourself is important and it&amp;#039;s not just about women. When my dad and my brother got massages for the first time they felt amazing, they walked into the room with better posture and were exuding confidence. They&amp;#039;re very bossy on the red carpet so it can be intimidating. I find it energy draining. Everyone&amp;#039;s shouting at you and you just have to block it out and do what you feel confident doing. That&amp;#039;s what I do. I&amp;#039;m into group workouts. Get your friends involved in your workout. That way you learn new things in the gym \u2013 it excites your body and you&amp;#039;ll get faster results. I&amp;#039;m always staying active. That&amp;#039;s the beauty of living in New York, I&amp;#039;m always outside and you always walk everywhere. It&amp;#039;s very important to follow a healthy diet. I don&amp;#039;t just do it to have a good body but because I want to feel good. If I&amp;#039;ve been eating bad stuff I don&amp;#039;t feel good, I feel tired. More celebrity beauty interviews: RITA ORA TALKS TATTOOS, NAILS, AND BEING THE FACE OF DKNY POPPY DELEVINGNE&amp;#039;S 12 MODEL BEAUTY SECRETS 7 INSPIRING CELEB BEAUTY REVELATIONS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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