Why hide something that's normal? Women celebrate their cellulite with the hashtag #CelluLIT. The action produces much more than beautiful pictures.
Yes, women have cellulite. At least most of them. Whether thin, thick, large or small: 90 percent of the world's thighs are marked with small dents. We still don't like to show them – until now. The hashtag #CelluLIT makes cellulite suitable for Instagram.
Cellulite is real – perfection is not
If women show themselves with perfect eyebrows, well coiffed and manicured, no one is surprised. Why? Because it has been instilled in us since catalog times that perfection is the norm. But it looks very different: Unpainted and raw. This is how the model Iskra Lawrence recently appeared. The woman faces a no-make-up challenge and shows herself without makeup. However, this gives her a whole new level of self-confidence.
In a post, she now calls for more self-love and celebrates the hashtag #CelluLIT. Lit is understood in English, but now also by German young people as a positive statement. And cellulite is something that can be shown and celebrated, says Iskra and writes:
Life is so much easier if you live it for yourself. Not for someone else's beauty ideal or evaluating someone else or a socially constructed perfection.
Iskra is also calling on other users to be more realistic on the Internet. Several women have already contributed to the hashtag #CelluLIT. Above all, they all share one feeling: relief. No need to hide anymore. To be yourself.
You are normal. Cellulite is normal. Show yourself normal!
Influencer Mik Zazon also fights for naturalness on the Internet. She wants to finally fill the social media with normal pictures of normal bodies. For World Bikini Day she shares her very personal # CelluLIT contribution:
Now you might think it would just be another hashtag with one of many messages. How much it really means for women to show themselves and their cellulite in public becomes clear when you read the texts for the pictures.
"I spent summer in glowing jeans, insisting that I feel good simply because I didn't dare to put on shorts and show the world the truth.", reports an Instagrammer. "Even the fitness models you compare yourself with have cellulite," another says to her followers, because "it's normal".
A picture alone may not cause a rethink. But every single photo is part of a big one. Only when we have seen cellulite as often as processed pictures can the established ideal of beauty change in our heads.
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