Hi, my name is Yanniek, I am 23 and I am from Amsterdam. I spend most of my time in nature and I am passionate about healthy cooking, sports and spiritual balance. I’ve been modeling since I was 17. On top of that I’ve been working as a personal trainer, lifestyle coach and I’m helping people find the right balance in their life. The reason why I started helping people find the right balance was because I could never find it myself until a couple of years ago. When my grandma died of cancer, at the age of 12, my life started to look really dark. Until my 18th birthday I was living a very unhealthy life: bad friends, a lot of partying, drugs and smoking were my daily activities. I felt bad and at a certain point this lifestyle started causing a lot of problems for me and the people around me. I quit school and I was involved in a lot of fights with basically everyone. I was kicked out of the house multiple times and even lived in the streets for weeks at times. I slept in abandoned buildings and broke into people’s houses while they were on holiday. At that time I fell into a very dark and depressed state and I realized that I had to make a drastic change or otherwise this lifestyle would have killed me. This was the moment when I decided to make a 180 degree turn. I started a job as a cheese seller at a cheese store in the center of Amsterdam. I also decided to contact my parents to offer them an apology. I told them I wanted to change my life and to make it better for me and them. Excuses were accepted and from that moment my life started to look better, but I was still very depressed and lived a very unhealthy lifestyle until one day I got scouted at the Amsterdam Central Station. From that moment, everything changed. I realized that if I really wanted to start a career as a model I had to become the best version of myself and I needed to live healthier. I took a gym membership and started to read books and blogs about health, lifestyle and spiritual healing. To my surprise I found them really interesting and a new passion was born. The realization of what I did to myself over the previous years started to really open my eyes. In the same period I did my first fashion week in Milan. This went very well and I walked my first show for Calvin Klein. After that I started to work for many big fashion brands like Fendi, Versace, Roberto Cavalli, Bottega Veneta, Moncler, Prada etc. I’ve never felt so good before and I started to expand my knowledge about health, sport and lifestyle. However, at a certain point, my interest in health and lifestyle started to become an obsession. I was taking it too far and I barely dared to eat a slice of pizza. My social life started to suffer from this: I avoided parties and ignored my friends. This was absolutely not the kind of life I wanted to live, because in parallel with my passion for a healthy lifestyle I also really loved to party, socialize, have fun and get drunk sometimes.So over the upcoming years, thanks to meditation, sport, rest and education, I managed to find the right balance in my life. Currently I am spending my days cooking the most healthy and delicious meals for the people I love, kickboxing, practicing jiu-jitsu, meditating and from time to time I enjoy a good party with the corresponding drinks. So despite my young age I think I have experienced many different sides of life. This made me realize that I wanted to use my experience to help other people as well. This is why I am a firm believer that to live a truly happy life and get everything out of it you need to find the right balance. Because life is about balance.

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