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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 no jews 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 against not because it's causing. insecurity

especially among women and young girls it affects men too but i think with all these pictures social media causing people to feel more insecure. in the us and 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 it is as being a woman isn't easy. pressure on women is also have because the female body has been central to the formation of women's identity for centuries almost that even today it's been from on these as this is kind ons noise feel mean it's not a completely new phenomenon of course but social media has certainly amplified the issue if you will.

review by human or through we're dealing with young people who aren't fully settled in their identity yet things have a particularly strong effect on them. going to fly i think we're facing a real problem and there is no simple solution. as you're making my look 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 pass.

the on the real people compare themselves with these norms most of them fall short on and think they're not beautiful enough or not fin for not toned enough or not this enough or not that enough or do you 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 and. so on and off. holmes my. instagram used instagram for that's the inspiration. for it i looked at

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. 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. 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 it a dictator who forbids them to do things he does and for pete that is this kid is no longer a choice but in order to follow that song. i was a forked beast and 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 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 it was kind of sad that my hair was falling out it's easy enough to have it all step has nothing to do with beauty of feeling good. to another but 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 advance 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 it was for us and i miss most 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

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. 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 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 to really come yet.

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 mind and are still attractive. then i'll go in the mirror and feel beautiful again going forward to touch. me on. strong is the new skinny 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 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. videos myself many of you tube c.d.'s so. but i was never that skinny look at that. so. this could just be no mention you want to mind a should. 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 i think this because if i need dia i need 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 food 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 can be you. and i must thank you. from my god i think i have some 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 yeah yeah yeah he swooned.

i'm far is 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. or there's been some and they seem to be assumptions 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 all so quiet a 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 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 if you think the scheme is fair i'd 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. when we start seeing our bodies as little more than objects of 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. the what's your my motivation is to keep getting better i don't compare myself to others i just want to improve myself. some.

scripture kind of work and see it 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 put it to good. use of all the work i do on my body paint off his cabinet said wall i think there was a time when natural beauty was more desirable because for but it seems like we departed from that a long time ago i think in. 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 a lot of us. who have monitored and measured and worked hard on themselves did 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 to me it's a moment of pure happiness. i think so many changes and. this 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 in the who will actually spend 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 list. i mean you've learned from having 200 grams of chicken breast with bell peppers and red onion. every.

quarter size 0 mannequins in the shop windows if they were real women they're big stream under white almost all male dominance on the other hand would weigh about average why hold women to different standards. the militia of its importance different masculinity is symbolically associated with reason rationality and the shaping of the world and of politics within for. women are associated more with sensuality irrationality there's supposedly closer to nature and more emotional high. up it says 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 the guardians of child media . 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 fashion 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 so 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 to go 680 aim is to insult them from stock to devalue their femininity. and to devalue their person with

sexualizing remarks is a 6 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 i see em bad all these things have nothing to do with my work. is tied off 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 in this key 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 don't write them comes off this is high protein 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 he. think girls and women a much better off the men think that they're taking everything away from men and that they are better educated that they're already ahead in economics and politics goes for 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. perfect smooth no rough edges.

and pearly white teeth full sensual lips so talk to. the feminine stereotype stares at us like a soul there's cloned women in commercials on doomed to for business 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. wonted they live in. and. yet you so much binge not long it's the last summer i moved to london i was on 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. and by one of 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 or. 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 don't give out for he. was you know you don't hear all that shots 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. the problem is many agencies are aware of it and just don't care. oh no no it's 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 asked me. and absurd to me. there

was nothing there i was just skin and bones but you can get so hung up on stuff like that. 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 and it's all staged it's nothing surreal i mean when i see pictures from my modeling campaigns i can tell is that it's not les hours of makeup styling and editing make out 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 so lots of people follow these perfect instagram pages because it's like a dream in a world worth pursuing and it's how instances 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 other edited pictures it's important to me and my followers that i show more real photos. in this 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 it. to do it to mitigate the effects of photoshop or beauty if we can call that what 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 is an often ciccio way to ideal looks. every image is digitally edited it beauty apps on our smartphones make the opportunities for modeling boundless we can make our eyes bigger than our noses smaller our lips . bones higher our faces lino our skin more perfect all of the swipe of a finger all the click of a mouse digital optimized solves sound better than our edited so.

the industry's new advertisers are so-called influencers. you can begin to get fired 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 is included jack 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 if that has been happening and people didn't care why i

added. they just wrote me off as someone who didn't take care of herself them big ass he can inflict. genocide i just wanted to get a source 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. 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 snow we're left with 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 just that something we had to deal with much less in the past few feet beneath off talked to refute because we get feedback when people told us we look good on some days or not so good on others often but at the risk of constantly being judged by others perhaps even groups of others of us are compared to them maybe putting the wrong kind of pressure on young people who are exposed to that you mention the deemster individuals because it's. so. camouflaged m. and s. if i were to go without makeup and do a video without lighting i could imagine there would be some people who find it very positive this is an asset but on the other hand was it if i couldn't do it in a long run and said can we have those 2 greek a star and if i wouldn't 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. if you're talking with us just as a specific session 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 lines i find this kind of quantification very problematic because it didn't dangerous 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 bet it's pretty comfortable when i'm travelling i combine it with shorts like the arabs 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 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 get a force that earn money with it and via and we go along with it even though we may not want to. see. those money just as 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 stalked 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. on.

industry as stoppable it keeps creating new trends no expense or pain a span to attain instead of wealthy perfection or to find a. reason to believe once you. begin to talk. to dr exists that michael jackson. is going to mature. even because there are several counter movements and various trends to show more natural bodies that haven't been edited. the dog campaign for example but i think it's a marketing ploy even brands that advertise with more natural female bodies still

selling something happened to us with how. immediately goes if it's perfectly possible to display all this diversity as they call it in the media. that nobody's sweating bodies big small gay trends nish be neither 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.

march your partner violet breasts are all too far i look 10 then we start for i don't for they want to what's going on there they talk in full 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 mustang doing a cash buy in fresh all fresh and you get the last one that the high does that she bought was still full of it doesn't help us then get that's wrong do not offer good for you as they wish to or your business part of this mob to discover this through no do you stop the panic this in britain is this in much of this injustice in this live if i'm in this small serious lou. the stimulus the students tell you these threats and let's write them grants bush didn't collapse. as

a businessman at 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. 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. my except 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.

i'm not going. to be the guy looked. around to see. 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 doesn't mean they're all pressed for that or make role models my mother wears a headscarf and drives a mercedes. and she has enormous strength. feminism in any way she 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 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 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. them for. their 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 for the 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 them and this is mine if i'm to.

moving them into social we live in a society that's racked with constant in are under arrest but my mother said she didn't know what that felt like because social media pictures didn't exist back then and 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 and we need new pictures. check. indeed the speech by the viewer in the fall often 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 they. follow the people we know will realize they generally don't correspond to any ideal but are more varied

i think in mine and i mean if we don't know that they can show us that they're actually quite interesting and fun to talk to us and laugh with as we do in sports most of it. was. just 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 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. 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. 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 and different close 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 will suit. my needs of the media undeclared don't think it's helpful to vilify the media and our bodies as if it were some mean enslavement or submission. it might be 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 finally 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. even as we just cannot important to talk about it and to look out for one another in your peer groups and. boards are still believe in the strength of our young generation and i believe they can support each other in the streets and.

just live 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. myself. there are no easy tricks those who have found that outer beauty have made a huge staff but beauty is more than just indeed it comes from with

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