Safiyya Vorajee has revealed she is "entering her soft girl era" after jumping into her new boyfriend's arms at the airport, in an Instagram post shared on Friday.
The internet personality, 39, hard launched her new romance earlier this month, after the couple met in Bali.
Alongside the post, Vorajee shared a loved-up photograph of the pair flexing their muscles during a couple's workout on the same trip where they fell in love. The phrase "soft girl era" has become popular on social media as shorthand for embracing vulnerability, gentleness and self-care after a period of independence or hardship.
She wrote: "Entering my soft girl era. For a long time, my softness was something I learned to give back to myself.
"I learned how to be my own safe place. How to protect my peace, enjoy my own company, hold my own hand through the difficult days and build a life that I genuinely loved being in."
Safiyya Vorajee's Instagram post in full
Vorajee continued: "And when you've worked so hard to find that kind of peace within yourself, allowing somebody else into it can feel incredibly vulnerable.
"Because letting someone in isn't just opening your heart… it's trusting them with a version of you that you've worked really hard to find again.
"But maybe this chapter of softness is teaching me something new. That I can be independent and still allow myself to be cared for.
"I can feel whole on my own and still make space for someone beside me. I can protect my peace without closing my heart.
"And maybe the strongest version of me isn't the one who carries everything alone.
"Maybe she's the one who finally feels safe enough to put some of it down. To receive. To soften. To trust the timing and allow something beautiful to unfold without needing to know exactly where it's going."
Split from Ashley Cain
Vorajee hard launched her new romance just weeks after her former partner, Ashley Cain, was sensationally axed by the BBC over historic misogynistic tweets.
It has been a challenging few years for Vorajee, who welcomed her daughter, Azaylia, with Cain in August 2020. Azaylia died from leukaemia in April 2021, at eight months old.
Cain, 35, best known for appearing on the MTV reality dating show Ex On The Beach, in which contestants' former partners unexpectedly arrive to disrupt new relationships, came under fire after it emerged he had made social media posts calling women "s**gs", "s**ts" and "psychos" on his X account, which has since been taken down.
He has since been sacked by the BBC, and the Daily Mail reported that he has also been dropped by his management.
Ashley Cain's response
Cain addressed the resurfaced tweets in a lengthy Instagram statement, saying he does not "condone" his past behaviour.
He wrote: "To my community, You may have seen a recent article concerning language I used many years ago that I am not proud of. I don't deny it. I don't excuse it. And I certainly don't condone it.
"The truth is that these comments were made over a decade ago by a younger version of myself who still had a lot of growing up to do. I cannot change the past, and truthfully, I have never tried to hide from it.
"I have always believed that accountability matters. We should all take responsibility for our actions, good or bad.
"But I also believe in growth, in learning from our mistakes, and in proving through our actions that the person we once were does not have to be the person we remain."
