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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 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 in motors and 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 have and they feel inadequate.

we cannot escape the power of images because it's 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. and once again 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 it is at being a woman isn't d.c. . 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 kinds of noise feel mean it's not

a completely new phenomenon of course but social media has certainly amplified the issue of you. have to. believe you are human or through we're dealing with young people who aren't fully settled in their identity yet these these things have a particularly strong effect on them. going to strike think we're facing a real problem and there is no simple solution in. this you're making my luck 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 we're going. i bought into its ideal of

beauty my body just never fit into that mold and was trying to pass. me on the real people compare themselves with these norms most of them fall short. and think they're not beautiful enough or not finish for not toned enough or not this enough or not that enough. say about can 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. films my. high. res.

instagram feed i used instagram for that's the inspiration. and i looked at a lot of photos of extremely slim models there's even the hash tag. that it's 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. oh. i 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 it. is always.

in the head of me that if a suit 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 just so many speak of an inner voice some even called a dictator who fits them to do things he does and for pete that this kid is no longer a choice but in order to follow that sign. which. must . react on a forked beast and many young people respond to that with depression she does beat before there is no conscious is fed with all these messages. and that settles into their thoughts and always it's like a sediment of sadness because they can't achieve what they desire. seem to be at.

the end of the one so i spent the night on the bathroom floor because it had floor heating and i was freezing so i had no strength left. right and for kind of assassin my hair was falling out and using up the house that has nothing to do with beauty of feeling good. to another man you don't feel good just because you're really skinny your entire quality of life suffers from being that thin compared to names predicted the length of the 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 issues most of us and i miss most and it doesn't. the 1st and the surety that are 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 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. 'd their belief would be to 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 are 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 wouldn't come. yet the 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'll go in the mirror and feel beautiful again. before. strong is the new skinny fitness is booming and no longer just for men the internet is teaming with female fitness models who encourage other women to reach

peak results what it takes they say is control and discipline. is good in mice and mentioned 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 stop assuming you are.

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. 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. many years myself many who do . but i was never that skinny look at that. so to.

escape if you mention you want to mind a shrunk no 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 i think this because if. i'm for especially for young woman because fitness is an ideal a norm that goes far beyond physical exercise fund 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 must forgive. him but 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 the only i'm sorry soon.

i'm far is most am 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 who are hard all and there's been some and he may be a social and it gets really tough my deficit is at its lowest and i can't eat a lot. of course i have 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. i'm so mad. and i don't even know why. i feel like crying and i don't know why i somehow managed to force myself

through my leg training and i did my cardio workout beneath 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 he would sing this communes 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 the latest 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 and. keep your kind of work against 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 on the work i do on my body pays off his cabinet type of 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 and again it's weird 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 get to show it off loser to me it's a moment of pure happiness. i think so many dangers and. keeper of the extreme i have to admit without a trace of envy that some people achieve really impressive results with their bodies. of setting up of the 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 in can be happy i don't think that ever happens and i believe that is what keeps us stuck in this rat race list. i mean you just need to learn it from having 200 grams of chicken breast with bell peppers and red onions. every year.

the ubiquitous size 0 mannequins in the shop windows if they were real women their big stream under white almost all male dummies on the other hand would weigh about average why hold women to different standards. they mainly get some polish different masculinity is symbolically associated with reason rationality and the shaping of the world and of politics the critic wanted for. women are associated more with sensuality irrationality they're supposedly closer to nature and more emotional. for the so i could 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 there is a remarkable amount of shaming rituals on social media this guardians which i made an old. obviously she most 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 fact nobody would want to screw you anyway they immediately make it about my gender and my body and cup i . was busy at one station is full 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 home even sex for the t.m.

is to insult them on stock to devalue their femininity. and to devalue their person with sexualizing remarks he says it's when 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 should be cut out more and like to bang you so you stop writing such nonsense or you're stupid you're retarded you must suck in bed size in bed all these things have nothing to do with my work. is titled oft 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 and not everyone's thinks this way i mention things on this day there

are actually plenty of people with 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 hard to take most of the time it's plain massaging. her teeth 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 how to he. think girls and women a much better off the 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 the numbers don't support these claims but that's what they fantasize. i think social media is like

a couple like barbie and ken. perfect smooth no rough edges. and curly white teeth full sensual lips so talk to. the feminine stereotype stares at us like a soldier's car and women in commercials are doomed to flawlessness and those 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 and what kind of walter they live in. and. yes you so much binge not long it's last summer i moved to london i was 4 and 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 he said he'd help me get jobs to improve my image for middle income. not 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 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 this finn and model. no one else because actors just fine 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 most 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. the problem is many agencies are aware of it and just don't care who's. not going to 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. to me. there was nothing there i was just skin and bones but you can get so hung up on stuff like that. 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 it's nothing surreal i mean when i see pictures from my modeling campaigns all i can tell is that it's not many hours of makeup styling editing makeup styling my know what goes on behind the scenes that include the 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 in

a world worth pursuing and that's how ms 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 thought was that i show more real photos. in this all they appreciate that. my man in my heart is the pages that retouch 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 community. to mitigate the effects of photoshop to 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 looks. 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 on our faces lena raskin much more perfect all of the swipe of a finger all the click of a mouse our digital optimized solves sound better than our edited so those.

industries new advertisers are so-called influencers. and we could. find 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 jayney can't afford to look anything but flawless. which. incidentally is included jack instagram is a work of art i do it to keep up with people of course i edit my pictures my temples are 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. people didn't care why i added. they just wrote me off as someone who didn't take care of herself to improve gas he can inflict. that tuna should i just mean if it got its course i cover up my pimples it's self defense as soon as you don't make society standards you have to put up with people looking at you sideways office day and no matter how hard i push 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 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 want to give to 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 beneath off talked her feet because we get feedback when people told us we look good on some days or not so good on others as indeed often but at the risk of constantly being judged by others perhaps even groups of others that are compared to them maybe putting the wrong kind of pressure on young people who are exposed to that you're mentioning the deemster initials because it's. camouflage stone and as 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 and i say not on the other hand was it if i couldn't do it in the long run and said can we should we have this

a group of star kind of the who would fit the mold meaning i wouldn't be able to keep working with the companies i do and when the name and then yeah. right. to shoot songs just i believe this obsession with numbers is linked to our capitalist society so 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. in charged so 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 but it's pretty comfortable when i'm travelling i combine it with. it's like the ads they have it's got me this is and

this from some i 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 is instagram. entertainment again of course that earn money with it and then we go along with it even though we may not want to. see. justice religion needs you to believe the advertising industry needs dissatisfied customers with a longing was seen to go 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 2 and 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. the industry as. it keeps creating new trends no expense or pain is spent to attain instow wealthy perfection like. this in the city of homs will be a good place to. begin to talk. to . dr exists i'd like. to wish me. luck. and i'm sure. you can believe there are several counter movements and various trends to show more natural bodies that haven't been edited. the doc campaign for example but i think

it's a marketing ploy even brands that advertise with more natural female bodies still selling something in fun company and forget us with our. own can ya immediately goes if it's perfectly possible to display all this diversity as they call it in the me. fat mahdi's sweaty bodies big small gay trans nish the need for the tongues 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 and.

march your partner well if that's all too far all they turn then we still are for i don't for they want to what's going on there they talk in full to all put off these a threat because it's off my 2nd option thought knocking against the red ballast tanks the heck the lot to get you on bob mustang going to cash in fresh all fresh and you get the last bun that the high does that she bought was still full of old doesn't help 7 us then get that's wrong 7 do not also good for you this time machine i have been at this point is do they want to mop to discover this thing no do you stop the chronic this and bridges this in much of this injustice in this live if i'm in this small series living being just this bruce tell you this shit

these threats and let's live from grants push to move that shit as a businessman i don't know 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. just always 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 why i wear 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 things can get problematic and you can get stuck in an eternal battle with yourself.

and not go. back to being. good to see. them 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 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. feminism in any way 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 public space we spend more time there than in real life and

that's where our friends are our environment our home. this instead in the 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 teaches the. 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. then for parker you missed off 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 to the if i post a problematic picture and 5 people take it as an example then that's my doing this

is then throughout the show on the phone with them and us mind if. 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. on. d.v.d. the speed i did you know in the fall 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 a very good mind and i mean if we don't then they can show us that they're actually quite interesting and fun to talk to us with scripts to read and. there's a saying in turkish they will not feed the baby unless a crisis then 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 fine 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 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. 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. that's the suit.

my needs of the media and to try 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 have a 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 bidness we just cannot afford 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 and this looks good.

just as if 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 that and outer beauty have made a huge step but beauty. indeed it comes from with a. plan . to run dry. is very big. what do we have to do not to. drive. do we have to rethink the industry. made. to. enter the

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