Biography
 

Christine Yahya @pink_bits is a graphic designer and illustrator who personally overcame a long battle with anorexia to now create body positive artwork on her social media channels to her over 133k followers, creating a body positive community. The Armenian artists based in Sydney, Australia began her battle with various eating disorders at the age of fifteen. Stating that she associated size with happiness and beauty, she thought she would achieve success once she reached a certain number on the scale. Christine explained that she was motivated by wanting to fit in which is why she strived to be what she saw in the media.
 

Christine’s Work

 

Pink Bits is inspired by and celebrates people & bodies in all their glory, illustrating the bits and shapes we're told to hide. Pink Bits strives to create illustrations that provide representation for the daily realities, diverse bodies and art for those who are not commonly featured in our media-dense society.  Christine says, “Pink Bits shows me how far I’ve come in a strange way as I’m viewing all these stunning, beautiful bodies that I’m drawing but five or seven years ago I wouldn’t have thought that [they were beautiful].’

Although she acknowledged that in this day and age we’re not in a perfect place, there is a lot more diversity in our culture then there used to be. Yahya states, “It was this narrow mould of woman that I looked up to in my earlier years that impacted me to take such extreme action to alter myself. This is why through my art I want to represent as many women as possible. Representation is so important, not only to those individuals, but as a wider society. There are so many women who are not represented in everyday media – I want to diversify that.”