Interview: Taryn Brumfitt from "Embrace" (The Controversial Doco With A Ruder Rating Than "Jason Bourne")

“What do you think you'll be thinking about when you take your final breath on earth? No one has ever said to me their cellulite, or their big bum, or their wobbly bits, or their big thighs, because those things actually don't matter."

This year, Australia’s classification board decided that the image of Jennifer Lawrence being choked by a giant Oscar Isaac was suitable enough for young people, giving X-Men: Apocalypse a measly M rating.

The same classification went to 10 Cloverfield Lane, in which a character is shot point blank in the face, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the grimmest, most sadistic superhero movie in recent memory.

Embrace, meanwhile, has been afforded the higher MA15+ classification. Why? A “protruding labia”, as the Board explained.

Taryn Brumfitt’s documentary, which challenges body shaming and embraces body diversity, has a more restrictive rating than Jason Bourne, thanks to some scattered nudity. I can think of an Alanis Morissette song that would be appropriate for their decision.

In the flick, Taryn travels the world to see if people all over the globe “hated their bodies” just like in Australia. (Spoiler alert: They do.)

We caught up with Taryn to chat about the common, international misconceptions about body image, her most shocking discovery (about the curious, cotton-y thing models eat to stuff their stomachs without putting on any weight) and how people can “embrace” their bodies and “focus more on who they are and what they do and how they feel”.