Fit influencer Adriana Blanc revealed why her body looks different in pictures taken on the same day. But wait, how can your body shape be different in pictures captured on the same day? Is there any secret that I don’t know?
According to the Daily Mail;
A young personal trainer has revealed how different her body can look in a matter of hours – and why she doesn’t like ‘Instagram versus reality’ posts.
Adriana Blanc, from the US, shared the images with her 100,000 followers to demonstrate how to become more comfortable with how your body can look under varying conditions.
The 24-year old said coming to terms with how you look with different lighting, angles and poses can improve your body image more than seeing ‘real’ pictures of fit influencers online.
The body positivity advocate shared four images of what she looked like throughout a 24-hour period.
In the first image, she wears a pink bikini indoors then shows herself later that morning in the same swimmers at the beach posing and looking more toned.
At midday she snaps herself in a clothing store change room in her underwear then again in the afternoon during a workout looking more slender.
Adriana used to struggle with her body image but said she changed how she turned photos of herself she didn’t like into a ‘handy tool for neutralising and normalising our appearance in the millions of ways we show up in the world’.
‘These are all me taken a few hours apart,’ the body positivity advocate wrote in a lengthy post to her popular Instagram page.
‘The reasons (photos) can be tough for our body image is because they capture a nanosecond of our existence, are often from an angle we would never seen ourselves from and that feel unfamiliar to use.’
She said each picture of yourself is ‘reality warping’ as they taken are usually under specific angles, lighting, camera lenses, expressions or movements that may never be replicated again.
Adriana said she would deal with snaps she didn’t like by avoid photos altogether, editing them or feeling shame, shock and guilt and delete them straight away or saying ‘horrible things’ to herself she would ‘never say to a friend’.
She said while those things made her ‘feel relief in the moment’ she realised they were all signs of ‘rejecting her appearance’.
‘Which is not necessarily problematic unless you know that rejecting your appearance has consistently led to unfulfilled moments in life such as avoiding things you really want to do,’ she said.
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