Due to her body anxieties, Lili Reinhart admitted she was “really insecure” about shooting a bra and underwear sequence on Riverdale.

During an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the actress, who has portrayed Betty Cooper on the adolescent drama since 2017, spoke up about her body anxieties, stating that she had trouble stripping since she doesn’t have the traditional “CW girl body”

She went on to note that for the Season 4 scene, she tackled her fears head-on in order to give a message of body positivity to her followers.

“I don’t have the CW girl body — tiny waist, nice-shaped legs, skinny, small, tiny,” the 23-year-old actress told the Times. “I had to do a bra and underwear scene in this last season and I felt really insecure about it. I really, really didn’t want to do it. I didn’t tell anyone this.”

“I wasn’t pressured into doing it. I did it because it was my job. But I felt bad about myself doing it. I really did. And this is where it gets complicated.”

Reinhart said, “I can’t preach body positivity if I don’t practice it. So even if I’m not feeling amazing about my body, I felt it was important for me to do the scene anyway in my bra and underwear so people could see my body as it was. I did it for the people who feel like they need to look a certain way.”

The actress also admitted that the perfect-looking bodies we see on social media and in the media aren’t a true representation of real life.

“You go on Instagram, and I’m like: ‘Oh, look, all these people with these beautifully toned bodies’ and then go to the beach – does anyone on the beach in the real world look like that? I don’t see anyone looking like this. Instagram and Victoria’s Secret runways are not a portrayal of how people look in real life,” the 23-year-old explained.

Reinhart has already discussed this scene with the same amount of openness. The actress tweeted in February that she is sometimes “intimidated by the physique of [her] surrounding cast mates sometimes,” especially during “bra/underwear scenes.” Reinhart has accepted the reality that she is not the kind of person you would see walking on a runway during fashion week,” despite Hollywood’s expectations that women on TV should be skinny.

“I have bigger boobs, I have cellulite on my thighs/butt, and my stomach sticks out rather than curves in,” she wrote on Twitter, “I want other young women to see my body on tv and feel comfort in the fact that I’m not a size 0.”

Commenters chastised Reinhart, pointing out that she is “still white and thin,” “hot and rich,” and has a “[socially] accepted” body type. She, on the other hand, chastised them for having “the audacity to tell me that my feelings aren’t valid.”

“People like this, the ones who leave these ignorant comments, are the reason why people don’t speak out and end up struggling alone. Shame on you,” she continued.