Woman proves Instagram 'isn't real' with two pictures taken one minute apart
Constantly scrolling through perfectly curated social media feed can convince you that everyone's life but yours is perfect - even if you know social media is a heavily edited version of events.
Washboard abs, glowing skin and time-stamped morning and evening routines which include healthy meals and exercise routines will have you convinced you are not doing enough when it comes to staying healthy.
And while there is a level of social media mercy during the colder months, come summer every post on Instagram will be filled with an influx of bikini holiday snaps.
However, one fitness influencer decided to take matters into her own hands to challenge this narrative. Being her most authentic self and wanting to encourage people from comparing themselves, she has been sharing what she looks like 99 per cent of the time.
Personal trainer Molly Ava proves that Instagram isn't 'real life' by sharing the same picture one minute apart (mollyavafit/Instagram)Personal trainer Molly Ava, who goes by the name @mollyavafit on Instagram, consciously shows her followers angles and poses that traditionally people don't label flattering. While sharing what her real body looks like, she offers disclaimers that what you see isn't always the way she looks when posing for a picture.
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Constantly scrolling can make it very easy to get stuck in a cycle and forget that the content we are consuming is curated and edited, it's often content that is staged and posed for. Tips and tricks are used to make bodies appear drastically different.
While Molly does have a stereotypically 'healthy' body and great figure, her mission is to show people that influencers' bodies aren't always what they seem. In an experiment recently, she posted two pictures taken one minute apart which looked very different.
On the left, she's posing by the pool with the caption "my 1%" showing a toned flat tummy, and then on the right a more relaxed pose showing her natural body and smiling at the camera with the caption "my 99%".
She looks great in both pictures, but the 23-year-old Molly has shown how body shapes can be deceived so easily on camera. She said: "Stop beating yourself up for not having the 'bikini body' you see others have online.”
"Why? Because the likelihood is, they don't have it either, a quick change of pose and angle and my body can look so drastically different but they are BOTH me, BOTH beautiful and BOTH worthy of my love and acceptance."
She went on to say "I spent my teenage years saving pictures of women with defined cores to my phone and doing crazy workouts that I thought would get me the body on the left without realising it could also still be the body on the right because I only ever saw the 1%. So let this be your reminder that the highlight you see, the 1% is simply that, a tiny snapshot, of a normal, moving, beautiful, body keep on loving yourself."
The post recieved thousands of likes online, with fans and followers praising the post. One said: "Thank you it's so easy to get caught up feeling bad and comparing yourself to the models we see. But most of what we see is not what they look like the majority of the time," while another said: "You have no idea how important your posts are to me. Thank you so much for helping me to heal and love myself."
Molly has proven the difference between online and reality consistently. She's previoisly shared similar comparison photos as she posted two side-by-side pictures, one showing her looking toned and lean, while the second snap - which was taken one minute later - revealed her natural stomach as she relaxed her body.
She emphasises that the pictures were not "before and after" but were instead both pictures of her natural body. The only difference between the pictures was her tricks such as pulling up the waistband of her leggings to make herself look slimmer.
She wrote: "Not a before and after. Just my body posed vs my body relaxed - both very much my body just in different forms.
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"What you see online won't always be what real life looks like. Whilst there is a lot more transparency now online you still need to take everything you see on social media with a pinch of salt."
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