Via @ashparaskevas Reality: you are so much more than a body! Those unrealistic beauty standards were created to make you feel bad and push you into buying something to “fix” or “solve” that man-made insecurity. It was never about you; it was about money. @victoriassecret angels played a significant role in my body image issues. I would watch it over and over again, and I had a “skinny” tumbler page full of Victoria's Secret models' photos. When I didn’t eat or work out, I would have a picture I looked at of @mirandakerr and a folder saved with all her secret model body tips and resources I found online. But honestly, when you grow up with specific beauty standards, it’s tough not to be influenced by them. Even when those standards change over time, the ones you’ve grown up with are always more influential in your brain. My time was magazines and cover girls, skinny models like Victoria's Secret. Retouched and photoshopped, without the awareness of photoshops existence. Fatphobia was so normalised in the discourse that you unwillingly internalised it. Girls would walk around saying, “ekkk, I’m so fat”, “why did I eat that”, “I feel obese”, “I wish I were skinny”, “I’m on a diet”, and the classic “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. People probably 22+ years old are still so affected by this era, and people younger than this are now influenced by the new generation of Victoria's Secret models - social media influencers. We must uplift each other to feel good in our bodies, knowing that beauty isn’t one image. Beauty is diverse, and that diversity is beautiful 🥰 bodies come in all sizes for a reason!