MODELS AND BEAUTY STANDARDS ⚠️swipe for a side to side thingy This isn’t generalised to all models, this is more about models I looked up to when I grew up (think Victoria’s Secret). I would watch countless ‘what I eat in a day’ videos by them, their ‘tips and tricks’ to obtaining their bodies, and I even went to the effort of getting a job at Victoria’s Secret to somewhat get closer to that fantasy of mine. I created this idea in my head that their bodies and diets was the goal for me. If I ate like them, I would look like them. And if I didn’t look like them, i wouldn’t fit in the idealised beauty standards. It sounds so drastic but this is how my brain thought. The main underlying goal for me and my young brain, and what drove a lot of my unhealthy habits, was to look like a size 6 model. A models life seemed to be everything I wanted but in reality it created every problem of mine. My body doesn’t naturally sit at a size 6. My body doesn’t thrive off the amount of food that those role models (pardon the pun) would have (theirs just might though). It’s once again, all soo different for everyone. Yet i think because we’ve been saturated with lifestyles involving green juices and egg whites, it normalises and romanticises it in some way. The picture of the left was a picture I took for a casting. I looked at it and still didn’t think I was slim enough which breaks my heart. I know that there’s still a lot of toxicity in the modelling industry which I hope dies out. The more we normalise different shapes and sizes (which is definitely becoming more regular), the more our standards of what beauty looks like will change. It’s a tough one to crack down on but I hope anyone who reads this can hopefully set goals that aren’t simply to ‘look like someone else’ or to ‘be a certain size’❤️