Melissa McCarthy's Empowering Message About Body Image

Melissa McCarthy has shared an empowering message about body image on her Instagram page.

The 'Spy' star posted a black and white image online with the slogan: “Warning: Reflections in this mirror may be distorted by socially constructed ideas of ‘beauty.’”

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“We have to stop categorizing and judging women based on their bodies,” she wrote alongside the image.

“We are teaching young girls to strive for unattainable perfection instead of feeling healthy and happy in their own skin. ‘Imagine we are linked not ranked.’ Gloria Steinem”.

It's believed the actress lost a whopping 50 pounds back in June and has since released her own plus-size clothing line.

Speaking to PEOPLE magazine, McCarthy said she loves her flaws and people can take her as she is.

"I feel sexiest when I feel comfortable, when I feel most myself, when I'm not trying to be anything other than who I am," she said.

"[I love] all of it: my flaws, my shortcomings, my body parts that you're like, 'Well, couldn't that be better?' I think, especially after having kids, I go, 'Well, the alternative is pretty bad. I'll take me as I am.'"

The 45-year-old comedian and actress previously revealed she doesn't think perfect people exist.

She explained: "I know I am not the 'norm.' It never occurs to me in terms of being a role model, though, because I don't know any perfect women. If I, off the top of my head, name 20 of the most amazing women in my life, it's all shapes, sizes, ages, colours, jobs.

"What people pass off as 'normal,' I just have to keep in my head that it's b******t. It's all fictitious, made-up stuff. I know some of those women in those magazines who get called perfect or whose butt is supposedly better, and often they don't even look like that in person. And they would die - they don't want you to compare who wore it better. They would be more horrified than anybody else that you're pitting them against each other and judging. You don't do that with guys."