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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 or 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 it knows is an clicks hours spent on mobile phones fuel mutual comparisons and evaluations young women tend to focus a lot on what they are not or do not hats and they feel inadequate. we cannot escape the power of images that most of. causing insecurity especially
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among women and young girls it affects men too but i think with all these pictures social media causing people to feel more insecure. it was in our society you can only be too thin or too fat you can never fit in this thinking i feel beautiful the way i am now i feel comfortable charming and attractive as much as ever being a woman isn't easy. pressure on women is also high because the female body has been central to the formation of women's identity for centuries almost indeed it's been from on these as this is kind ons noise free will mean it's not a completely new phenomenon of course but social media has certainly amplified the issue of you. have to.
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believe you are human or true we're dealing with young people who aren't fully settled in their identity yet these things have a particularly strong effect on them. going to fly think we're facing a real problem when there is no simple solution. as you're making out 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 trying to.
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be on the real people compare themselves with these norms most of them fall short on what does this and think they're not beautiful enough or not finish for not toned enough or not this enough or not that enough or do you know it's sad and fit in. with us 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 and. so on and off. instagram i used instagram for that's the inspiration. i looked at
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a lot of photos of extremely slim models there's even a 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 is that if a suit of perfection to fit an ideal image can become destructive. then my
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behavior becomes compulsive i feel forced to make myself prettier to improve myself just so many speak of an inner voice some even call it a dictator who forbids them to do things he does and for pete that as this kid is no longer a choice but in order to follow that sign. i use a fork at least many young people respond to that with depression just a bit before there's a conscious is fed with all these messages. and that settles into their thoughts and 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
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freezing so i had no strength left. right it kind of assassin my hair was falling out musing of the our house that has nothing to do with beauty of feeling good. to another make you 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. have a mood 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. first and then this moves and it doesn't be muslim. the 1st to see and the surety that aren't supposed to come any 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
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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. body i started following body positive influencers on social media instead and deleted a lot of super waves from my instagram feed. ready before people are seen as you 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 tax vehicle income yes here for me
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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 builders' mine and are still attractive. then i woke in the mirror and feel beautiful again going forward to cash. in on. strong is the new skinny fitness is booming and no longer just by man the internet is teaming with female fitness models who encourage other women to reach a crisp what it takes they say is control and discipline.
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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. this is an odd stock assume you are.
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my add to my day to day life as a bikini athlete includes a lot of training of course i workout almost every day. or 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. videos myself many of you tube c.d.'s so. i was never that skinny look at that. is good just you mentioned you want to mind a shrunk you know it is many people think that being thin is really important
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that's just my doubt that i think fitness has become the guiding principle for a good body fitness because if i'm the kind of flawless 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 fit 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. and i don't much think you need to come by that i think i should competitions coming up and that means i'm on a diet i have to eat less calories than i burn and well i eat really healthy. and he soon. he says. a month or so with you but
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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 emotionally it's hard for women to maintain a low body fat percentage. hard or there's been some and then he moves social insecurity 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'm 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 beneath i'm not even hungry
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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 so i don't you feel like i was off. you know using this means for i say this kind of a version to pleasure is g. 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 an insulated 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.
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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 and want to help you get. stuck with the work i do on my body pays off his cabinet said 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 think in spirit when these days we prefer to acknowledge people who have invested a lot of work maybe even had an operation or have stuck to a strict diet and exercise a lot of us. who have monitored and measured and worked hard on themselves that help. 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
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get to show it off to me it's a moment of pure happiness. as you saw made a decision and. keep of that he exclaimed i have to admit without a trace of envy that some people achieve really impressive results with their bodies. and purpose of in that 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 in 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 mean you think. i'm having 200 grams of chicken breast with bell peppers and red onions. if.
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you big quitters size 0 mannequins in the shop windows if they were real women they'd be extremely underweight almost all male dominance on the other hand would weigh about average why hold women to different standards. the militia of it's imported from masculinity is symbolically associated with reason rationality and the shaping of the world and of politics to critique with and for. women are associated more with sensuality irrationality they're supposedly closer to nature and more emotional i. say 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
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there is a remarkable amount of shaming rituals on social media this guidance a child needed one. philip ashima was it a highlight of phrase he came. as a nice day it's almost business as usual to be attacked as a woman and 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 fact nobody would want to screw you anyway they immediately make it about my gender and my body and cup i. was busy at what's actually sensible 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 phone events that's when the t.v. aim is to insult them on stock to devalue their femininity. and to devalue their
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person with sexualizing remarks is a 6 for 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 write get yourself sterilized or you should be cut out more i'd like to bang you so you stop writing such nonsense or you're stupid you're retarded you must suck in bed with your face in bed 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 just that also i can remind myself that not everyone's thinks this way i mention things on this key there are actually plenty of people with
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a positive mindset and that's easy to forget that often when you read such moments you're scum and. 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 down back to my guns all of this is high protein most of the time it's plain massaging for tea but here 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 that's a heathy racial minority think girls and women a much better off the men is that they're taking everything away from men and that they're better educated that they're already ahead in economics and politics the numbers don't support these claims but that's what they fantasize right so. i think social media is like a couple like barbie and ken and perfect smooth no rough edges.
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smooth skin probably white teeth full sensual lips so dr if i use the feminine stereotype stares at us like a solid esquire of women in commercials on doomed to flawlessness and or 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 what kind of walter very live it. and. yet you so much binge not long it's last summer i moved to london i was born and i went out one evening and was introduced to several people. one of them was
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a manager an agent something like that i guess own dad 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 because i was offered several 1000 euros for 2 hours and when i asked and he said i had to be ok with natural intimacy. nash 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 this finn and model. knew what it was 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 really not only means being successful. it can also lead to constant sexual
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harassment. 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 than to give right for he. was you know you don't hear all that chance i'm often asked to take off my top or bra because they say it 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. not long 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 in week. to me. there
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was nothing there i was just skin and bones but you can get so hung up on stuff like that but all complex. and it makes you wonder what's gone wrong with his industry. do you have to question everything so when i look at how my photos are taken it's all staged it's nothing surreal even 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 that include 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 and lots of people follow these perfect instagram pages because it's like a dream a world worth pursuing and it's home is this is an event and streams the thing is
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we can't pursue it because it doesn't exist and 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. in this all they appreciate that. my man in my heart is the pages that really touch photos should point out that it's not real 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 there are a few photo manipulations have to be marked as such that might actually help. but
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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 our cheekbones higher our faces lino raskin more perfect all of the swipe of a finger all the click of a mouse our digital optimized solves sell better than our edited so those.
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industries new advertisers our so-called influencers. the big game plan and i pity. the 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 jenny can't afford to look anything but flawless. which. instagram is enclosed back instagram is a work of art i do it to keep up with people of course i edit my pictures my 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 and i and my people didn't care why i added. they just
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wrote me off as someone who didn't take care of herself them big ass he can inflict . that to show that he's going to pick up his horse i cover up my pimples it's self defense as soon as you don't meet society's standards you have to put up with people looking at you sideways after day 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 of 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. but isn't knowing me dealing with these new media we've noticed that we're moving away from looking at other people's faces and rating them as
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a pretty very pretty average viewer for seeing our own faces being critiqued because it does it was that something we had to deal with much less in the past few feet then you go off talked to should be feedback because we get feedback when people told us we look good on some days or not so good on others as often but at 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 initials because it's. camouflaged and that's if i were to go without makeup and do a video without my do you i could imagine there would be some people who find it very positive this is an essay i did not on the other hand was if i couldn't do it in a long run and said come here you know if this is a group of dark kind of i wouldn't fit the mold meaning i wouldn't be able to keep
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working with the companies i do and when the name and then yeah. right. if you're talking this just i think this obsession with numbers is linked to our capitalist society. it's all about counting measuring about making more money about gaining more attention in social media that translates into more clicks more likes i find this kind of quantification very problematic because it didn't dangers quality. charged so that was the size medium because i like the loose fit better. it's got a cut out here so you can wear a colorful brawler a bikini underneath and it'll show i bet it's pretty comfortable when i'm travelling i combine it with. it's like the. yeah it's got me this is and this from tim i don't think it would work any other way the economy in the business that work
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with people like that don't benefit from you being happy with yourself then there wouldn't be any idealistic instagram. gives. it in his instagram. to get up hours they earn money with it on to vienna and we go along with it even though we may not want to. see. the smoke just as religion needs you to believe the advertising industry needs dissatisfied customers with a longing was seen super bowl to thank god happiness beauty and love are all things that could last forever. couldn't that be the case before they could be taken away in the blink of an eye stalk 2 and a half 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.
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the industry is unstoppable it keeps creating new trends no expense or pain is spent to attain instow wealthy perfection by. listening to the phone. to talk. to dr biggs. and i'm sure. you can believe that there are several counter movements and various trends to show a more natural bodies that haven't been edited. dubbed campaign for example but i think it's a marketing ploy even brands that advertise with more natural female bodies still
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selling something so in foreign companies you have to forgive us for. mankind and 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 trans 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.
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but if this all too far all they turn then we start falling for they want to what's doing this talking for to all put off these attractive to talk much 2nd our top knock against the red ballast tanks the head the lot to get you on bob well staying stuck during a cash threshold stretch and you get to the last turn and the heart knows that she was still through it all doesn't help us didn't get it wrong did not offer good for you as they wish to or your business partner did not to want to discover this to know do you stop the panic this is because this isn't much of this is just isn't this live the feminists will soon. justice produced all your bullshit these threats and what grants the student that judge you as a businessman not only i took
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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. i used to wear really baggy pants back then and they'd criticize them to death. i was so stubborn i kept telling myself they'd understand one day. a society accepts me and tells me you are so cool the way you are that i like myself so 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 things can get problematic and you can get stuck in an eternal battle with yourself. you're.
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going to i'm not going. to be. good to see if. it isn't 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's does that mean they're old pressed or that they're meek role models my mother wears a headscarf and drives a mercedes. and she has enormous strength. feminism in any way he says that his 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. public space we spend more time there than in real life that's where our friends are our environment our home. this internet and it's
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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. and for. your mission 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 that is probably if i post a problematic picture and 5 people take it as an example than that's my doing this is them throughout the show on the phone with us is mine if.
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maybe i'm just so shocked we live in a society that's racked with constant in are under arrest it's a break with my mother said she didn't know what that felt like because social media pictures didn't exist back then and they were they 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 you. are coming to you believe in the spirit i didn't want to show off 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. follow the people we know will realize they generally don't correspond to any ideal but are more very
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good mine and these i mean the moment they can show us that they're actually quite interesting and fun to talk to us and laugh with and we do scripts written. saying in turkish they will not feed the baby unless a crisis. we need to cry we need to talk we need to speak up and say what we want. because if we don't they think we're finally going to school. the stuff. i feel is 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. rap is where i get my strength every woman has something inside her where she can draw strength from i
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don't mean materially but in yourself in 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 is just i feel beautiful the way i am now i feel comfortable with who i am charming and attractive zein with and i might also look nice in different clothes in 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. because that took 6. d. median to claim don't think it's helpful to vilify the media and our bodies as if it
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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 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 either 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. to which this cannot support and to talk about it and to look out for one another in your peer groups. work i still believe in the strength of our young generation and i believe they can support each other.
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just as 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 were found and outer beauty have made a huge staff but beauty is more than just skin deep it comes from with
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