29 Jul Health Blogger Reveals Why You Shouldn’t Compare Yourself To Instagram Models

Our society has become obsessed with body image.

Of course, it could be fairly argued that such meditations on the human form are hardly new. Magazine editorials and newspaper cuttings have created impossible paradigms of beauty out of the human form seemingly since time immemorial – particularly in the case of women – though there is something about the ceaseless drip feeding of such unattainable standards of beauty that feels a little more all encompassing in our modern culture.

Perhaps this has something to do with the inexorable rise of social media. Now, Instagram models – purporting to operate in some bizarre sphere of influence while in reality doing little other than furthering their own profiles – dominate our consciousness with sun-soaked vistas and improbably toned bikini-clad snaps that remind us just how far our own reality is from theirs.

In such times, reality appears to have become a largely outmoded and obsolete concept. Perhaps this is understandable, after all, what interest does a picture of Bob down the road on his ride-a-long lawnmower hold in the face of such effervescent beauty?

That same beauty can be devastating viewing for individuals with issues surrounding body confidence, though. Of late, some with an online presence seem to have been recognising this, and, laudably, have been speaking out on the subject to great effect.

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