{"id":161,"date":"2017-01-09T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/fionacarey\/?p=161"},"modified":"2017-01-22T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T19:37:00","slug":"shining-social-media-success-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/fionacarey\/2017\/01\/09\/shining-social-media-success-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining Social Media Success Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, let’s be honest, we are all very quick to blame the internet for body confidence issues in teens today. But where there is bad there is something good and positive body confidence messages really are there too.<\/p>\n

Here are some examples of Instagrammers who have\u00a0helped people look past the rose tinted glasses (or Valencia filter) and accept their bodies for who they are:<\/p>\n

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1. @amalielee<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Eating disorders have no shape or size. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Photo credit: Instagram.com\/amalielee<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ll be honest, I spent a long time scrolling through her Instagram and was inspired.<\/p>\n

Amalie is a blogger and anorexia survivor who promotes a HEALTHY body image. She posts inspirational quotes, pictures of the food she eats (both healthy and not), her body before and after bloating, and at different stages of her eating disorder.<\/p>\n

She even has a strict ‘no photoshop’ rule on all her photos!<\/p>\n

One of the most important messages I think she promotes is that eating disorders have no specific look. She even wrote a post<\/a> on how she doesn’t want to be anyone’s body goals. Her proportions = her individual body and you shouldn’t strive to be like anyone else, just a better, healthier you!<\/p>\n

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2. @marcielhopkins<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Model turned curve model \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Photo Credit: instagram.com\/marcielhopkins<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, Marciel’s Instagram is filled with images of her confidently modelling\u00a0curve clothing, but it’s so much more than that.<\/p>\n

In the picture opposite Marciel detailed how she maintained her lean figure on the left – and it wasn’t healthy.<\/p>\n

No carbs, red meat or alcohol, training\u00a02-3\u00a0hours a day for 5 months straight, these were all factors. Healthy? Perhaps, but it wasn’t realistic and it wasn’t fun to live, constantly restricting herself.<\/p>\n

Marciel, a motivational speaker, teaches that some bodies are simply not built to maintain a tiny frame and that’s okay!<\/p>\n

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3. @omgkenzieee<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Credit: instagram.com\/omgkenzieee<\/p><\/div>\n

Cellulite, weightloss and un-tone tummies. Kenzie Brenna is a body activist who’s Instagram started off showing her fitness then went on to show real life.<\/p>\n

Her breath in – breath out photos show how people can manipulate their bodies in a single action and similarly, she demonstrates photoshop.\u00a0Everything about her posts are completely natural: rolls when she’s sat down because SHOCK that’s what happens.<\/p>\n

No forcing health or ‘curvy girls do it better’ digs, just plain and good all round acceptance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, let’s be honest, we are all very quick to blame the internet for body confidence issues in teens today. But where there is bad there is something good and positive body confidence messages really are there too. Here are some examples of Instagrammers who have\u00a0helped people look past the rose tinted glasses (or Valencia…<\/p>\n

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