A mother of two showed on Instagram what 'real women' look like: 'Enough of filters!'
Retouched photos convince us daily that wrinkles, freckles, wide pores, hair, and pigmentation 'spots' are undesirable, but the fact is that most of us have them, she says.
Australian Breeahn Carter from Perth has decided to post nude photos of her, as she puts it, ‘imperfect body’ on her Instagram, where she has 20,000 followers, to encourage influencers not to use Photoshop, filters, and other photo-processing tools that young girls use. "Retouched photos convince us every day that wrinkles, freckles, wide pores, hair and pigmentation 'spots' are undesirable, but the fact is that most of us have them!" said the 35-year-old mother of two children and added that people want to see 'real female bodies' on social media.
Her photos, for which she wore only lingerie, received only positive comments from women who praised the Australian for exposing herself on Instagram without shame, without make-up, and without filters.
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"Over the weekend, I came across videos in which people explain how they arrange photos for various influencers and that saddened me," Breeahn explained at the end of her unedited photo in which she proudly poses in pink lace lingerie, reports the Mirror. As far back as the 1990s, she says, there has been the rise of a ‘diet culture’ and since then it has been impossible to see a woman in the media who is not slim, meaning generations have been raised with the wrong idea of beauty for which they lack self-confidence.
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"I remember that in high school I used to cry in the locker room because I was burdened by my appearance," she says, which is why she had been sure that she should lose weight since she was a teenager, but recently she realized that she really wants to be healthy and fit, not skinny.
"I won't turn down cakes or skip sweets anymore!" she said, because "all this is me!".
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By: Sarah R.
