‘I used to hate my body – but working with dead people helped me love my curves’

A mortician admitted that tending to the dead helped her love her body.

Lauren Taylor, 30, from Minnesota in the US, is familiar to seeing corpses on a day-to-day basis.

The mum even finds her job therapeutic and peaceful, mainly because the deceased 'can't speak back.'

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But after working in the funeral industry since a teen, Lauren learned a lot about herself – and her body.

After spending years feeling insecure about her curves, the mortician-turned-TikTok influencer became a body positivity advocate.

"Before I had kids and before I really did this as a job, I was really insecure about my body," Lauren exclusively shared with Daily Star.

"And then after doing this for a job and then seeing how quickly life can end for each person, it is so damn short.

"And if you want to wear the suit where the damn [swim] suit.

"Nobody's opinion matters and just your happiness matters.

"If it makes you happy to wear that suit and go to the beach you should do it because life is so short and tomorrow is never promised.

"I definitely think that this job really opened up my eyes to that concept.

"I would say, definitely [the job has made me body positive]."

Working closely with death has put a lot in perspective for Lauren, who is currently taking some time out to focus on raising her young children.

After witnessing the blood-curdling screams of mothers who lost their children – young and old – the mortician felt it was time to cherish every moment she could have with her own tots.

While she's putting her focus into being a stay-at-home mum, Lauren has built up a huge TikTok following where she provides insight to her line of work.

She noticed that death is a huge taboo among her one million fans – so Lauren is on a mission to "normalise" it.

"I’ve been around the dead all my life and always considered it a normal childhood until I grew older and realised it was definitely more of a unique experience," Lauren explained.

"I think that it is so important to normalise death because if we all just pretend that death is something that happens to other people, then we really don't.

"It really just puts our own lives into perspective.

"We only get to live once, there's no do over button.

"This is it and it's a very real part of life. We're all going to die.

"One day, we don't get to start it over and redo it.

"We don't get that time back with our kids.

"That's it and our culture and society over here in the States is we don't talk about death we kind of just shove it off to the side.

"I think that that is I think it's really toxic really because death is and can be a beautiful part of life."

As she understands that dying is just a normal part of the life-cycle, Lauren doesn't seem fearful of that fact.

So much so, she doesn't fear the dead themselves.

"The dead don’t talk back," the mortician said.

"I know the general public might find that a little weird but I was brought up knowing that the dead can’t hurt you.

"I hope that we all live long enough to live a full life but the reality is is many of us don't.

"So it's it's really a gift and I think that talking about death really puts into perspective that gift of what life is."

You can follow Lauren on TikTok here.

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