Plus-Size Model Recreates Celebrity Photo Shoots To Promote Body Positivity

Body Positive?

In today’s society, it’s hard for a lot of women to feel comfortable in their own skin when models are constantly looking slimmer and slimmer every day.

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Add social media apps and photo editing tools into the mix, everyone feels like a gross, fat, ugly slob when they go online.

Perfectly Imperfect

The truth is, not everyone is “perfect” and the majority of the time, people only post and show photos they edited/filtered or the outcome of trying 100 times to get the perfect angle.

Self Esteem

While we know this to be true, it’s still a knock on our self-esteem when we see seemingly “flawless” girls flooding our newsfeeds while we sit in our sweatpants and messy buns.

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One plus-size model is using her Instagram, however, to clap back at those seemingly flawless women and make a new wave of beauty on her own.

Diana Sirokai uses her Instagram profile to show off her curves and what many would call “flaws” and promote body positivity. She poses in anything from tight dresses to lingerie with inspiring and moving captions. Her goal is to show other women who feel insecure about their bodies that their flaws can too be their power.

Remember You are just as special as the woman you idolise

I wanted to show the parts of my body that I thought they made me less of a beautiful girl and here I am as A beautiful young woman who turned her Flaws Into her own Power by just starting to Love them. #MyFlawsAreMyPower#ISlay@photo_karizza@delicatesavage

“I bet she can’t even fit in the bath” – I even have space for you boo boo #ButIGuessItsTooFancyForU?@photo_karizza

10 Things to tell yourself every morning before starting off your day. * I AM HEALTHY * AND   I AM STRONG
* I AM POWERFUL  AND * I AM HAPPY
* I AM BLESSED AND * I AM WEALTHY *AND  I AM GRATEFUL * TODAY I AM A BETTER VERSION OF MYSELF THAN YESTERDAY * I CAN DO IT
AND * I AM LOVED
#ConfidenceWithDiana?@photo_karizza

Diana also decided to pose up against two big models and influencers in the industry to showcase that plus-size women can also be praised and glorified the same way as thin women and models.

20 Emo Kid Glow-Ups That We Clearly Don’t Deserve

Everyone went through an emo/scene phase at one point in their life. Whether it was Taking Back Sunday, or those choppy cover-the-eye bangs—we all went through those few years where we edited all of our pictures with skulls and sad quotes and used way too much eyeliner for our liking. But, we all know, emo kids grow up to be bad-ass, chic rockstars. Therefore, to make you all feel better about your own emo pictures you hide in your closet, BuzzFeed users are sharing their “glow-ups” to show that we’ve all been there.

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American Eagle And Aerie Have Stopped Photoshopping Their Models And We Love It

Throughout the years, women have felt insecure in their bodies and their looks. Why? As the years and decades have progressed, magazines and advertisements have featured models and influencers who are airbrushed, photoshopped, and edited to the point where they don’t even look real. No woman walks the world with absolutely no cracks, crevices, or wrinkles on their body and it’s time that we stop with the bullsh*t and start embracing women’s real bodies.

Luckily, some companies are putting the right foot forward and showing women that natural is beautiful. Recently, American Eagle and Aerie have decided to showcase models and women with no photoshop and no airbrushing. The results? Amazing.

The #AerieREAL campaign features women, not only without photoshop, but also with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and of all sizes.

They’ve also featured natural women with no edits in their underwear ads, bra ads, and swimsuit ads. Recently, one photo has gone viral on Reddit because people are shocked to see natural bodies—noticing that elbow wrinkles, and butt wrinkles, are real.

People on Reddit were leaving comments on all the things they never noticed in women—like, elbow creases. Additionally, women think the photos are inspiring and have helped them become more comfortable with their own bodies.

It’s a unique experience seeing the elbow skin creases. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture with those.

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Comforting to see I’m not the only one in the world that skin thing by the bra happens to.

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The more I see these honest photos, the closer I get to being brave enough to wear my swimsuit in public.

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I even like that she has a bruise. Cause we are humans and bump into things and it’s normal!

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Thank you Aerie and American Eagle, us women all over the world thank you.

Amy Schumer Demolished Someone Who Photoshopped Her To Be ‘Insta Ready’

Comedian Amy Schumer is no fan of Photoshop. And she’s not afraid to stand up and tell people when she’s not pleased with something, or when she feels something was done for the wrong reasons.

And so it was that a fan of hers recently found themselves in the hot seat after they edited a picture of Amy Schumer to make it look “better” on Instagram. Schumer knows she looks good just as she is, and she let the person who made the picture know her feelings on the matter without hesitation.

The Instagram post showed a split between a Getty Images picture of Schumer and one that had been digitally altered to make her look…like another person altogether, honestly.

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In the comments on the since-deleted photo, Schumer wrote “Woof this is not good for our culture. I like how I look and don’t want to look like a carbon copy of this one type woman you feel is the best way to look.

She makes a great point—why look like somebody else altogether when you can just look like yourself?

People on Instagram loved her response, and let her know in the comments how much they appreciated her standing up for women in general.

One person praised Schumer’s response and said we could all learn a lot from it, like to “Love who you are and be your authentic self.”

Another person pointed out the irony of the fact that the original photo had been taken at the premiere of Schumer’s movie I Feel Pretty, a film with the message that we should all love our bodies and feel beautiful just the way we are.

This isn’t the first time that Schumer has gone after someone on Instagram for altering pictures of her. One person said she looked “way better” in a bikini after the picture had been changed to make Schumer look skinnier.

Schumer commented on the picture, writing, “I disagree. I like how I really look. That’s my body. I love my body for being strong and healthy and sexy. I look like I’d give a good hug or have a drink with you. The other picture looks nice but it’s not me. Thanks for sharing your thoughts as well. See, we’re both right.”

In that case, the person who had changed the picture responded for his “ignorance” and added that he has “no right to make people feel bad about themselves.”

Cheers to Amy Schumer for being the strong and positive woman that she is!

h/t: BuzzFeed

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