15 issues 50 stores and 15 very personal tips on berlin's very best feature the phone. the full canelo for planet for lift our girl back series every week on d w. most women are dissatisfied with their bodies this is nothing new but young women have become more and more in secure since the advent of social media something is always too big too small too thin too fast too little too short term long or too much. on instagram and

platforms like it those who are judged to be the most beautiful are rewarded with the most likes him o.j. is an clicks hours spent on mobile phones fuel mutual comparisons and evaluations young women tend to focus on lot on what they are not or do not have and they feel inadequate. they could not understand we cannot escape the power of images against the course of causing insecurity especially among women and young girls it affects men too but i think with all these pictures social media are causing people to feel more insecure. in those in our society you can only be too thin or too fat you can never fit in this thing to i feel beautiful the way i am now i feel comfortable charming and

attractive as much as ever being a woman isn't easy. there pressure on women is also higher because the female body has been central to the formation of women's identity for centuries also. that indeed it's been a full on these as this is kind guns noise feel mean it's not a completely new phenomenon of course but social media has certainly amplified the issue if you will. to. be viewed by a human or we're dealing with young people who aren't fully settled in their identity yet he sees things have a particularly strong effect on them. going to fly think we're facing a real problem and there is no simple solution.

as you're making light of i haven't always felt comfortable in my body but i've always been very interested in fashion. i used to pay a lot of attention to the media medium fix it and i bought into its ideal of beauty my body just never fit into that mold and was think about. the army as well as real people compare themselves with these norms most of them fall short i think they're not beautiful enough or not thin enough or not toned enough or not this enough or not that enough or they you know it's going to say about infinity. because the whole social media hype started on platforms like

instagram people started thinking that not only supermodels look that way but normal girls too so i was so then i'll let me. up instagram for fans i used instagram for that's the inspiration. dance for you i looked at a lot of photos of extremely slim models there's even the hash tag. that fits all about very skinny people posting pictures of themselves to encourage others to lose even more weight to work out even more and to eat even less. we wake up in the morning and the 1st thing i do was look at pictures of thin

models on instagram. they weren't just models they were also normal girls just normal girls with anorexia. in the head of exactly pursuit of perfection to fit an ideal image can become destructive. system then my behavior becomes compulsive i feel forced to make myself prettier to improve myself. so many speak of an inner voice some even called a dictator who thought bids them to do things and for pete that is the skates no longer a choice but in order to follow that sign. a forked beast and many young people respond to that with depression. the bit before

their set of conscious is fed with all these messages. and that settles into their thoughts always it's like a sediment of sadness because they can't achieve what they desire. seem to be at. once i spent the night on the bathroom floor because it had floor heating and i was freezing so i had no strength left. right it kind of sad that my hair was falling out using of the our house that has nothing to do with beauty of feeling good. that's up to another man you don't feel good just because you're really skinny your entire quality of life suffers from being that thin you can read the names for it it doesn't other months and. i

wouldn't eat anything for months only when i felt dizzy that's when i realized i couldn't do this anymore that something had to change i had to go to therapy. as most of us and i miss most and it doesn't be muslim. the facade and the surety there are many attempts to conform to beauty ideals a bound to fail when i work with my patients i tell them that if my image of myself isn't correct then i don't need to change myself to fit that image i need to adapt my image to fit my personality these girls are trying to fit their self image and if that doesn't work it's because that image is too far removed from reality. i started following body positive influencers on social media instead and deleted a lot of super waves from my instagram feed. ready

before people see if you were female role models are very important especially for young girls the question is which ones do i choose do i choose people who have beautiful and successful like beyonce or madonna they might seem out of reach or do i choose role models closer to me who are more attainable and who can inspire me to realize more of who i really am for. me who are income 6 vehicle income yet he wished me is that now instagram helps me feel more comfortable with myself now i follow a lot of people who have the same body type as i do or are plus size. it helps to see their photos and see how pretty they are and to know they have a similar build as mine and are still attractive. then i look in the mirror and feel beautiful again going forth to touch.

on. strong is the new skinny and fitness is booming and no longer just by men the internet is teaming with female fitness models who encourage other women to reach peak results when it takes they say is control and discipline. is good in my statements and see most people are doing pretty well that means storing fat for harder times isn't considered attractive and that's where this beauty standard comes from these diseases for most people being skinny isn't their natural state but the product of hard work and especially given the temptations of our modern abundant society where we can consume calories as often as we like staying slim is associated with effort and stress which makes it more of

a status symbol. which clothes for. too long this is an odd stops and. my add to my day to day life as a bikini athlete includes a lot of training of course i workout almost every day. to hear more important though is getting the right nutrition in between. and that means i always have to plan my meals i can't just go somewhere for

a day without having cooked in advance. so if i know i'm going to be out the next day i have to buy and prepare everything the evening before and in addition i still have a lot to do on social media and i also make my youth. 20 years myself how many hoops needed so. but when i was never that skinny look at that. is good just to mention you want to mind a shrunk you know it is many people think that being thin is really important that's the slight doubt that i think fitness has become the guiding principle for a good body fitness window and because if i need a dui for a specially for young woman because fitness is an ideal a norm that goes far beyond physical exercise found there's fit for fun fit for work that for life fit for sex fit for everything and that actually has a strong relation to the theory of evolution survival of the fittest which feeds

back into the concept of competition and success gavino. and i must. complain that i think i have some competitions coming up and that means i'm on a diet i have to eat less calories and i burn and well i eat really healthy. and. he says. i'm far most down with you but you're really motivated and you still have a lot of calories and with time your calories drop as your body had absent things become more and more difficult as you must be it's hard for women to maintain a low body fat percentage. in all this being so maybe he'll be assumptions and it gets really tough my deficit is at its lowest and i can't eat a lot. of course i get very hungry at times and that affects my mood.

so part of the small today is monday and i've got 6 days left thanks i'm feeling really down today. already ramos i was so mad. and i don't even know why. i feel like crying and i don't know why i have somehow managed to force myself through my leg training and i did my cardio workout. i'm not even hungry that's how angry i am but i'm going to eat a little now anyway because i still have to take in a fair bit of protein if you drive us over. you know if you think the scheme is fair i'd say this kind of a version to pleasure is due to an intense body cult it's your mind's response to our bodies objectification even as of in the. t.v. and when we start seeing our bodies as little more than objects things that we have

no loving relation to or degrade them to tools to perform better to be better to be special to be admired. then we are ultimately separating ourselves from our emotions in the in the incident from. you what's your my motivation is to keep getting better i don't compare myself to others i just want to improve myself in the. scripture kind of work and see you in a way there's no upper limit to fitness you can always get fitter and that logic can perpetuate itself into infinity when i have to take you. inside. the work i do on my body paint off clothes cabinets head wall i think there was a time when natural beauty was more desirable but it seems like we departed from

that a long time ago i mean again. these days we prefer to acknowledge people who have invested a lot of work as maybe even had an operation or have stuck to a strict diet and exercise the lot of us. who have monitored and measured and worked hard on themselves that hop. music is far from me it's all about pride i go up there in my high heels you're standing there you've worked so hard for this moment and now you get to show it off to me it's a moment of pure happiness. i do so many things that and. escaped of because he exclaimed i have to admit without a trace of envy that some people achieve really impressive results with their bodies. of setting up before me in the who will actually spends that much time energy and money on their body can change it quite a lot but this ideal of it ever being possible to reach

a state of permanency or that i'm ever done working and can be happy i don't think that ever happens and i believe that is what keeps us stuck in this rat race loveliest. i need to learn it i'm having 200 grams of chicken breast with bell peppers and red onions. every. new big quarter size 0 mannequins in the shop windows if they were real women they're big stream under white almost all my old thomas on the other hand would weigh about average why hold women to different standards. the militia it's imported from masculinity is symbolically associated with reason rationality and the shaping of the world and of politics the critique within for.

women are associated more with sensuality irrationality there's supposedly closer to nature and more emotional. she does so i get up at a should also perhaps be more at home responsible for housework all this is expressed in these pictures where girls and women are to be desired they're expected to be objects of desire what they say and do is less interesting and i believe social media is giving new rise to this imbalance here people are compared rated and shamed and i must add there is a remarkable amount of shaming rituals on social media this guidance which i made in one. obviously she most highly of her for. a single day it's almost business as usual to be attacked as

a woman if your voice your opinion the readers in my case it's mostly male readers won't respond with arguments they'll say you're ugly you're fat nobody would want to screw you anyway they immediately make it about my gender and my body and cup i . was busy i've had stations who for me we've been observing a massive amount of denigration of women in the social media insults threats violent speech to say the least because going from phony by 6 when the t.m. is to insult them all come stock to devalue their femininity. and to devalue their person with sexualizing remarks is a 6 when the easier to. tax a common thought the worst comment i ever received was your subhuman why don't you become a stripper or a hooker and hang yourself and there are other people who right get yourself sterilized or your you should be cut out or i'd like to bang you so you stop writing such nonsense or you're stupid you're retarded you must suck in bed i see

embedded all these things have nothing to do with my work to home. in style often i often share screenshots of comments like that it's important to me to see that i have allies who think it's just as bad as i do this can also i can remind myself that not everyone's thinks this way i mention things on this there are actually plenty of people with a positive mindset and that's easy to forget that often when you read such malicious comments. i think it's because the users can stay anonymous. that way it's easier to vomit your opinion or fart on to the web and then move on. and don't read. comes off this is hard to take most of the time it's plain massaging her teeth when you look at all these hateful posts and the sheer amount of them you can see there by people who think that girls and women have already

taken over the world how to say he. think girls and women a much better off than men is that they're taking everything away from men and that they are better educated that they're already ahead in economics and politics comes with numbers don't support these claims but that's what they fantasize you know right so. i think social media is like a couple like barbie and ken. perfect smooth no rough edges. and probably white teeth full sensual lips so dr if i use the feminine stereotype stares at us like a soldier's car or women in commercials on doom's or flawlessness and are sold as sex objects the formula for success sex sells seems to apply particularly to female bodies who are the women behind these beautified masks i walk out of

a living. and . yet seen so much binge not long it's last summer i moved to london i was born i went out one evening and was introduced to several people. one of them was a manager an agent something like that goes on dad knew he said he'd help me get jobs to improve my image for middle income. for a few months ago i received a whatsapp message asking me to have dinner with a very famous actor. i was offered several 1000 euros for 2 hours comment when i asked and he said i had to be ok with natural intimacy. natch that

was when i realized this couldn't be normal i said i was sorry that i wasn't an escort i was a model. and esquires finn and model. no one else because i was told lots of top models did it this is not that it was normal and that they were making millions. that shocked me he tried to convince me that you couldn't get anywhere if you don't accept office like that and. being a pretty not only means being successful. it can also lead to constant sexual harassment. and by the way that's also the case for less pretty women. as we all know sexuality has fairly little to do with appearance. and more to do with dominance and power dynamics. but you know you don't hear all that chance i'm often asked to take off my top or bra because they say it's in the way of my portrait. which always makes me wonder why is my bra in the way if they're taking

a picture of my face i've also had them try to help me on dress as if it were the most normal thing in the world i don't agree with that. fishnets the problem is many agencies are aware of it and just don't care who's. now known it before moving to london i had visited an agency in munich and they told me my hips were too wide for the london fashion week must that you seemed absurd to me . there was nothing there i was just skin and bones but you can get so hung up on stuff like that on part of complex. and it makes you wonder what's gone wrong with his industry. you have to question everything so when i look at how my photos are taken it's all staged nothing's real and when i see pictures from my modeling campaigns i can tell

that it's not lay hours of makeup styling and editing makeup styling my know what goes on behind the scenes and that includes same goes for myself is i used to do a lot of work on myself is when i look at them today i hardly recognize myself so lots of people follow these perfect instagram pages because it's like a dream a world worth pursuing and tom is this is and the very. thing is we can't pursue it because it doesn't exist exist yet. middle of august himself it's now i'm more interested in the edited pictures it's important to me and my followers that i show more real photos. that's all they appreciate that. my mom and my cousins the pages that really touch photos should point out that it's not real and i'm not sure that these people fully realize what kind of impact it

can have reduced and what it does to young people it's very dangerous and i think it's a crucial topic that isn't being discussed enough in our society on his. second solution . to the need to mitigate the effects of photoshop or beauty if we can call that all we have to do is look different very few photo manipulations have to be marked as such as that might actually help. but we can't forget that the picture still speaks louder than the label. in the age of social media not even a make up artist isn't enough to cheat your way to ideal lopes. every image is digitally edited beauty apps on our smartphones make the

opportunities for modeling boundless we can make our eyes bigger our noses smaller our lips are cheekbones high our faces lino our skin all perfect all of the swipe of a finger all the click of a mouse our digital optimized solves sound better than our edited so. the industry's new advertisers our so-called influencers. can be good again but i pity you. with over 300000 instagram followers influencer janie has more subscribers than some daily newspapers companies use internet stars like her to advertise products and make lots of money janie can't

afford to look anything but flawless. instagram isn't close to back instagram as a work of art i do it to keep up with people of course i edit my pictures i pimples or retouched but if i think about it and try to think of a good reason for it then it's different than just wanting to fit in for example i used to have very bad acne if that has been had they gone by and the people didn't care why i hadn't. they just wrote me off as someone who didn't take care of herself them big ass he can inflict. genocide i just went if he got a source i cover up my pimples it's self defense as soon as you don't meet society standards you have to put up with people looking at you sideways. i often say that no matter how hard i pushed the idea of being yourself and loving yourself for who

you are it still felt too risky because i have a fairly wide audience. i'm still afraid i bought a ring light and sat far away from the camera in my videos so that you couldn't see my acne and one way or another it still gets to you you feel boxed into a corner and wonder am i really any different to the rest of the muskets by these and knowing media and with these new media that we've noticed that we're moving away from looking at other people's faces and rating them as a pretty very pretty average viewer for just seeing our own faces being critiqued because it's does it was that something we had to deal with much less in the past few fini go off talked to feedback because we get feedback when people told us we look good on some days or not so good on others as indeed often on the risk of constantly being judged by others and perhaps even groups of others to be compared to them maybe putting the wrong kind of pressure on young people who are exposed to

that you mention the deemster in the halls because it's an. easy. kemah fast and as if i were to go without makeup and do a video without lying to you i could imagine there would be some people who find it very positive that is and i said i did not on the other hand was it if i couldn't do it in a long run and said can we should we have this group of dog kind of who would fit the mold meaning i wouldn't be able to keep working with the companies i do it and when the naming of it in kind then yeah. right. if you're talking with us jesus i believe this obsession with numbers is linked to our capitalist society. it's all about counting measuring about making more money about gaining more attention to. in social media that translates into more clicks more likes i find this kind of quantification very problematic because it didn't

dangers quality. in charge did so with this is a size medium because i like the loose fit better. it's got a cut out here so you can wear a colorful brawler or a bikini underneath and it'll show i bet it's pretty comfortable when i'm travelling i combine it with shorts like being. there it's got me this is and this from to my don't think it would work any other way the economy and the business that work with people like that don't benefit from you being happy with yourself then there wouldn't be any idealistic instagram. gives. it is this instagram. need to be moving to get march the earn money with it until via and we go along with it even though we may not want to. see you thank you one does my injustice religion needs you to believe the

advertising industry needs dissatisfied customers with a longing was seen super cool to thank god happiness beauty and love are all things that could last forever. or they could be taken away in the blink of an eye or one store off this constant consumption oriented tampering with our bodies is supposed to remind us of that and that's how the market for these products is developed. these are put. on. industry as. it keeps creating new trends no expense or pain is spent to attain instead of wealthy perfection to find. reason to believe something. to believe. is a beautiful. drive exists but michael jackson.

has a mission. and i'm sure god. has a commitment to. do because there are several counter movements and various trends to show more natural bodies that haven't been edited. the dub campaign for example but i think it's a marketing ploy even brands that advertise with more natural female bodies still selling something in phone company after 40 percent. immediately goes if it's perfectly possible to display all this diversity as they call it in the media. that nobody's sweaty bodies big small gay trends nish be near the top we can show all kinds of bodies along with the whole variety or making them beautiful or sexy or whatever.

with uniformity in with individuality we want more women who swim against the current women who are confident about stepping into the spotlight women who are proud of their bodies rebels who aren't afraid to show what they can do women who courageously stand up to assault and oppression. yes there's a valid result for all eternity starfall i'm for they want to what's going to be talking for to all put off these attractive that's off my 2nd option top notch against the red ballast tanks the head the lot to get you on bob or staying stuck

doing a cache and fresh all fresh and you get lost done don't know how does that she was doing through it all doesn't help us then gets old do you not also good for you this time machine or you have been this far in this not to want to discover 7 this to know what you're up to tonic this is bridges this isn't much of this is just isn't this live if i'm in this mysterious. if the stimulus is produced all you do should is direct and let grant bush to move. as a business man of all it took a long time for me to find my role in society and as a woman in the hip hop scene i used to record at the youth center and there was a park you had to walk through to get there. and there were people sitting there who saw me. my used to wear baggy pants back then they'd criticize them to death. i was so stubborn i kept telling myself they'd understand one day where this.

society accepts me and tells me you are so cool the way you are that i like myself but if i'm criticized all the time when you're 1415 you start asking yourself things like whether or not you're pretty if you don't find validation problematic and you can get stuck in an eternal battle with yourself. going. back to business. and doesn't just mean your hair is short i know a lot of women with headscarves kurdish turkish series iranian iraqi women who are very strong and all wear a headscarf that doesn't mean they're all pressed or that they're meek role models

my mother wears a headscarf and drives a mercedes. and she has enormous strength. anyway he says that this image wouldn't fit into feminism right now but it does they just don't portray it i find social media and the image of women problematic because social media is our 2nd. space we spend more time there than in real life that's where our friends are our environment our home holes are this internet and it's important to build good real social relationships that requires investing a lot of energy in friendships and good relationships with your parents and teachers it also means really experiencing something meaningful in real life developing hobbies exploring interests beyond the media i could use the media as a source of information or to chat with my friends but i shouldn't necessarily enter a space so huge i can't keep an overview anymore and if i do i should at least do

it carefully and be more aware of how much of myself i allow into that space. for parka you missed often we're all responsible if we want to change things and everyone has to work for it and even when i want to show questionable pictures i don't because i have a responsibility for the if i post a problematic picture and 5 people take it as an example the nets my doing this is then throughout their. name and this is mine if i. live in we live in a society that's racked with constant inner underestimate my mother said she didn't know what that felt like because social media pictures didn't exist back then. did differently i believe this inner education also has a lot to do with the fact that we all struggle with ourselves we always want to change ourselves to adapt to these images we need new pictures.

check. indeed the spirit guide you want to follow and because we align our tastes and our beauty standards with those of the people we know there is a solution to this fatal new media trend that pressures us in certain areas and causes a stress. noir media the. fall of the people we know will realize they generally don't correspond to any ideal evil or more very good mind and i mean if we don't then they control us but they're actually quite interesting and fun to talk to us and laugh when we do the scripts written. saying in turkish they will not feed the baby unless it cries. we need to cry we need to talk we need to speak up and say what we want. because if we don't think

we're fine it's going to school. stuff. i feel weak in a lot of things too i can't say i feel strong everywhere there are things where i have a hard time and there are things that make me feel strong. and rap is where i get my strength every woman has something inside her where she can draw strength from i don't mean materially but in yourself. the psychological strain actually arises when i think i'm not important enough not interesting enough not competent enough that's when i try to become somebody i'm not and that's how the tragedy begins. this thing to me it's a beautiful the way i am now i feel comfortable with who i am charming and attractive. and i might also look nice in different clothes and with a different image and style maybe i'd be pretty then too but i'd never be happy

because that wouldn't be me. yes that's the suit. my needs of the media and explain don't think it's helpful to vilify the media and our bodies as if it were some mean enslavement or submission. it might seem but it's also something we enjoy and it's in our nature to like dressing up and putting on makeup and the question is how can we handle it in a way that self determined and beneficial to us. guns fired we haven't completely driven by others but i am never completely self determined it would make the most sense to strike a balance between the 2 i want young women to be able to make the rules themselves

to a certain degree. the goodness which is this class important to talk about it and to look out for one another in your peer groups it's off work i still believe in the strength of our young generation and i believe they can support each other because that's a good. existence of as long as i live on this planet i live in this body and it needs my care i am infinitely grateful for it for carrying me through life and making everything available we need food for our soul in the sense of emotional care that always means having a. with myself. there

are no easy tricks those who have found it. have made a huge step but beauty is more than just skin deep it comes from within.

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