Cecily McKay

@selflovewithcecilyy

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💗 Self-love activist @holyrollerhealing 🧘🏽 Yoga teacher @sweatheory 💅 Model @lamodelsdirect @empoweredmodelmanagement
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We are officially in print!! Big thank you to this insanely creative and talented team 😍🙏 2024-07-25 04:56:58 We are officially i.. 105 +28% 13 +53%
Grateful to get to collaborate with this amazing group of artists 🙏💗 #blessed 2024-05-06 23:50:03 Grateful to get to .. 0 -100% 8 -6%
Hey, it’s my birthday. I’m 36. One of the many side effects of abuse is difficulty celebrating yourself. It’s a lot easier for me to love, accept, support and honor others than it is to do these things for myself. Abuse makes you believe you are not worthy of receiving the love you put out into the world. So here’s to honoring this crazy, beautiful, intense thing we call life. Thank you for the role you have played on my life, even if it’s just by following my journey and supporting my content. 

👆 REMEMBER you deserve love, support, acceptance, understanding and compassion NO MATTER WHAT. And part of this human experience is that you can’t guarantee that you’ll get these things from other people. You can’t control other people. You can’t control how other people treat you. What you can control is how you treat yourself. 

🍰 Since I’m the birthday girl today, do me a favor and say something nice to yourself—right here, right now. You deserve it. 2024-04-08 21:58:28 .. 146 +79% 50 +490%
Grateful to get to spend the day making cool stuff with cool people. Thanks for being a captive audience for all my hilarious jokes. Y’all are all stars.
Boy model: phillip_zelanick_ 
Photo geniuses: t3nphoto 
Makeup genius: sara_lipetz 
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#dreamteam #weirdosunite #model #photoshoot 2023-06-17 11:20:27 Grateful to get to spen.. 81 -1% 21 +148%
New digis, party people! 👏🏼🤩🙏🏼 big thanks to my wonderful team of agent babes lamodelsdirect. Honorable mention to my NY empoweredmodelmanagement agent babes. I’m a lucky lady #blessed 2023-01-26 06:39:09 New digi.. 125 +53% 22 +159%
My friends, I have caught the ai bug :) I present you “Lavender Sunset”
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#digitalart #aiart #painting #digitalpainting #art #impressionism #sunset #inspiration 2022-12-23 05:07:44 My friends, I have ca.. 27 -67% 0 -100%
Obviously, I am a model, and honestly it’s kind of shocking for me to look at my photos, especially when they are good. For those of you that know me personally, I deal with a number of mental health disorders related to trauma. My day to day can be pretty challenging, and I am extremely grateful to be getting my feet under me. When I see beautiful photos of myself, it feels like looking at someone else. I can see my courage, my strength, my resilience, my grace. I can’t tell you how much fear, anxiety, insecurity and unworthiness I have had to wade through in order to show up beautifully for a single photo. And somehow I usually manage to muster up enough will-power to bring out the light, which is something I am incredibly proud of. I love modeling because it gives me the chance to experience beauty, even if just for a moment. Real talk y’all, the ability to manufacture beauty on command is a serious skill, and something I have worked hard to develop. I am lucky to work with an amazing team of agents who believe in me and support me to be my best self. That helps. I kid you not, I used to practically crap my pants before castings because I had such terrible performance anxiety! But sometimes, maybe even usually, I pull it off, and the photos come out well. That’s a good feeling. There’s nothing like winning to not feel like a loser, am I right?

This was a shoot I did recently with my gorgeous, talented and hilarious friend helloitscaitlin. She needed to get some content for a job and enlisted my help. And folks, we nailed it. I can’t believe how happy I look! Authentically happy. It’s to see that, to have photographic evidence of my capacity for joy because I certainly don’t always feel it. So here’s to celebrating moments of joy, women supporting women and a reminder that it’s okay not to always feel beautiful. I don’t. It’s okay to feel ugly sometimes. I think that’s powerful. Who says we need to be beautiful all the time? The beauty, the light, is still there. Be patient. The sun will come out again. Xox
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#model #mentalhealth #joy 2022-12-13 04:55:44 .. 179 +119% 29 +242%
“Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.” —Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA

I captured this snap in the parking lot of #ikea after a successful supply run. I am always inspired by their design and philosophy. Zero waste, duh. Also accessibility—it’s cool to see a company making beautiful, high quality products the are affordable for everyone. 

#landscapephotography #vanillasky #artistsoninstagram #dailyinspiration #quoteoftheday #makemistakes #ingvarkamprad 2021-08-18 07:49:21 “Only those who.. 77 -6% 5 -41%
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” —Albert Einstein
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#dennisroycoronel #lamodels #lamodelsdirect #empoweredmodelmanagement #fashioneditorial #fashionphotography #renttherunway #lookoftheday #modelshoot #modellife #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #alberteinstein #solitude 2021-05-28 00:42:34 “I live in that sol.. 165 +102% 13 +53%
“Choose only one master—nature.” —Rembrandt 2021-05-17 10:29:13 “Choose only one .. 42 -49% 1 -88%
“Everything popular is wrong.” —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Fun fact, Cecily is a lead character in this play :) and Oscar Wilde is an OG queer legend ✊🏼 love him.
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#quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #quotesofinstagram #oscarwilde #fashioneditorial #modellife #empoweredmodelmanagement #lamodelsdirect #newyorkcity #modelshoot #fashionphotographer #fashionphotography #lgbtqiaplus 2021-05-16 05:11:50 “Everything po.. 85 +4% 1 -88%
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” —Henry David Thoreau
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#inspiration #inspirationalquotes #quoteoftheday #thoreau #nature #sky #naturephotography 2021-05-15 02:33:49 “Heaven is under ou.. 35 -57% 1 -88%
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.” —Lou Dorfsman 2021-05-12 05:07:28 “Creativity is esse.. 171 +109% 6 -29%
Shout out to all my babes who are not mothers. I am happily unattached for the first time in my life, but that doesn’t mean looking at everyone else’s kids and families makes me feel great. We all have our own paths, our own journeys. Being single and childless doesn’t make you any less valuable as a woman. Remember that today as you celebrated all the babes with babies. It’s okay not to have em. Just you is enough 💐✊🏼
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#allmysingleladies #womensupportingwomen #femaleempowerment #nonmothersday #womensday 2021-05-09 23:05:08 Shout out.. 42 -49% 1 -88%
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”—Simone de Beauvoir, French intellectual who greatly influenced feminist existentialism

I’m an LA lady now, through and through. I love the sunshine, the palm trees, the verdant green, the explosion of flowers in the spring. And a part of me will always belong to New York. It made me. And photos of like this make me remember who I was in that city, who I became. 2021-05-01 04:39:01 “There is somethi.. 96 +17% 4 -53%
“If you have built castles in the air, you work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden 2021-04-28 08:32:02 “If you have built .. 20 -76% 0 -100%
“This is the very perfection of a [woman], to find out his own imperfection.” —Saint Augustine

The more I get comfortable with the things I don’t like about myself, the more I like myself. It sucks facing your insecurities head on. It’s scary. So much of life is spent hiding from the things we don’t like, avoiding. But that’s not living. It’s more fun to be honest with yourself about what you don’t like, what you’re scared of. Our insecurities keep us vulnerable, and vulnerability is maybe the most beautiful part of being human. Vulnerability is the cake of life. Don’t miss the cake :) 2021-04-27 05:25:21 “Th.. 106 +30% 2 -76%
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.“ —Albert Einstein 2021-04-26 01:17:18 “Reality is merely .. 28 -66% 0 -100%
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” —Robert J Sawyer

I saved this quote almost 10 years ago. Meaning, I’ve been sitting on these words for nearly a decade. And honestly, it’s a taken me that long to understand them. As women, we are hard wired to be responsive to other people’s needs. It comes with the baby territory. And people, partners, jobs and society at large uses that sensitivity against us. Learning to ignore the pull of other people’s needs and expectations and to make my own choices is hard. Its the hardest thing I’ve ever done. But the more I do, the happier I am and the more I have to give others. And now when I help, it’s a choice, not an obligation. It’s okay to ignore people who want you to clean up their messes. People get to clean up their own messes. That’s equality ✊🏼 2021-04-24 22:16:36 .. 75 -8% 6 -29%
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” —Niccolo Machiavelli

Feeling simultaneously fragile and prickly today. Anyone else? Developing boldness is a lot of work. And it’s hard. Sometimes sloth beckons like a familiar friend, attempting to lure you into a sense of false security. Don’t fall for sloth! Take chances. Show up for even when it’s hard. That’s what life is for—living. Even when it feels like sh!t. 2021-04-23 22:14:59 “All cour.. 39 -52% 1 -88%
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.“ —Herbert Bayard Swope, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

Feeling this today, maybe everyday. It’s so tempting to please others. We think safety and success come from being good. The more I’m able to let go of other people’s opinions of me, the happier I am. Our job is to fulfill our own purpose, live our own dreams. Pleasing others is a trap that feels especially dangerous for women. We love taking care of people, and sometimes that care is taken for granted. For me, self-love has been a journey of learning to please myself. It took a while to get in touch with the part of myself that knows what I need, but now that I’ve found her, I’m holding on for dear life. If I don’t take care of myself, I can’t take care of anyone else, which has been a hard lesson for me to learn. 

Anyone else feel me on this? 💋

#inspiration #quoteoftheday #selflove #femaleempowerment #feminist #feminism #fashioneditorial #fashionmodel #fashionphotography #modellife #lamodels #lamodelsdirect #empoweredmodelmanagement 2021-04-22 19:14:24 .. 119 +46% 8 -6%
Okay, so I’m realizing what a perfectionist I am when it comes to posting. I get mega insecure about posting anything, so in my brain, the obvious way to combat this is to make sure everything I post is flawless. And that sucks because then I never post anything. It’s about the process right? Even if it’s unfinished or messy or ugly? 

Here’s something I wish I had done better. Unfinished homage to her royal highness lizzobeeating 
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#portrait #digitalart #painting #lizzo #artistsoninstagram #unfinishedart #digitalpainting #digitaldrawing 2021-04-14 05:33:54 Okay, so I’m real.. 34 -58% 1 -88%
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”—Maya Angelou — shout out to all my butterflies 🦋🦄 we’re all butterflies, aren’t we? It’s so easy to forget everything we’ve done to become who we are. Take some time to remember today, k? Xo
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#model #modellife #fashionphotography #fashioneditorial #lookoftheday #style #inspiration #styleinspo #floral #pink #dennisroycoronel  #empoweredmodelmanagement #lamodels #lamodelsdirect 2021-03-12 05:48:29 “We.. 84 +3% 4 -53%
Okay so real talk, I’ve been painting a lot. Digital artwork is so fun, wow :) it’s always been a struggle for me to share my work. So here’s a tribute to sweet haileybieber, weeks after her completion. HB really does have a great face, doesn’t she? I’m still trying to figure out my colors and stuff. I’m still evolving 🙈🙏🏼😘
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#painting #portraitpainting #haileybaldwin #haileybieber #babeportraits #procreate #artbabe #artistsoninstagram #artwork #artoftheday #artofinstagram #digitalpainting 2021-03-11 05:47:03 O.. 84 +3% 15 +77%
Searching for sunshine with dennisroycoronel 🌸☀️
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#model #fashioneditorial #lookoftheday #mood #modellife #lamodels #lamodelsdirect #empoweredmodelmanagement #modellife #styleinspo #pink 2021-03-09 21:38:24 Searching for suns.. 78 -5% 0 -100%

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