'Is the whole point of life to be hot?': Canadian influencer opens up in honest post

Canadian influencer Sarah Nicole Landry — known as The Birds Papaya— says being "hot" is not the whole point in life.

The body-confidence influencer shared a side-by-side Instagram post on Monday, comparing a posed mirror selfie and a candid photo with her daughter on the beach.

In both, Landry's seen wearing a black bikini, with her hair pulled in a messy bun and sunglasses on her head.

The mom-of-four paired the post with a caption questioning if the entire point in life is to be hot, to which she immediately responded, "Of course it's not."

"Yet whenever I see a less-than-hot pic of me I have to ask that because I go into an internal mini crisis."

Landry admitted she loves to "have that moment" of feeling "hot," especially after having babies.

"I love to feel every bit of worth in my skin and find the confidence to exist in it. Own the hotness."

The influencer added owning her hotness means acknowledging she can be "Hot [and] a mess; Hot [and] a boss; Hot [and] an entrepreneur."

But, Landry questioned why the emphasis is always on the "hot" aspect.

"Time and time again I’ll get the comment that my entire role on this earth is to be attractive, to reproduce, to serve a man," she penned.

"What about being kind? Being fun? Being engaged? Being full of life and joy?" she asked her followers. "What about that kind of 'hot?'"

The self-love advocate admitted her selfies are often "posed hot shots," while the ones her family takes are "free from." They're "the point," she wrote.

In the comments of her post, Landry urged her fans to "reflect on the hottest qualities of the people you love and recognize how their bodies are just a slice of it.

"The hottest people I know are passionate, charming, kind, witty, confident… and their bodies ever changing (and therefore the weakest validity to their hotness)," she penned. "Hotness is multifaceted just like us."

Her fans and followers rushed to the comments to praise the influencer for her "important reminder" — and share similar perspectives.

"There’s a picture on my mantle that is objectively not hot," one person wrote. "It’s a candid moment of me laughing while holding my daughter. Everything about it is honest and even though nothing about it is attractive, I think it’s beautiful," she added.

"'Hot [and]' is so important because we are so much more, our bodies are so much more and our worth is so much more," another said, while someone wrote: "Love your body for all it’s done for you!"

One Instagram user thanked Landry for her post.

"This is such an important reminder. While it’s beautiful to have photos, they are a split second in time, where as we are all the angles, movement and as a whole, 'all the hotness' and all the goofy, giggles and jiggles too."

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