Self-love: Influencer shows how to lie with "perfect" Instagram bodies – video

Influencer Danae Mercer clearly shows how mendacious the majority of photos on Instagram are. In the video you can see how extremely cheated on the picture platform to show "perfect" bodies.

All just a nice appearance: somehow most of us already realize that not every picture on Instagram is true. But how shockingly a large number of the photos shown are actually based on trickery and shameless lies. Influencer Danae Mercer shows on her channel how little effort practiced professionals can fake absolute perfection.

Bikini body? We all have!

Mercer actually takes the #nofilter hashtag seriously – and confidently shows bikini photos on which she doesn't even try to hide her cellulite. Above all, the direct comparison to conventional Instagram postings is impressive: Often the 33-year-old shows herself on the left in an artificial pose that hides supposed "problem areas" – and on the right in a natural pose that represents the reality in front of the camera. She perfectly sums up the problem herself: "It is easy to make everyone happy. To adapt and to gently and quietly give in to the voices that scream the loudest or hurt the most," she wrote in a post. "But if we want to please everyone, we won't become anyone. We'll fade. We'll lose ourselves."

A question of attitude

In her clips, she shows particularly impressively how much the perspective and posture fake things in the pictures that look completely different in reality. From one second to the next, cellulite on the thigh or the base of the abdomen, which does not match the image, disappear. At the latest when she demonstrates how widespread Photoshop manipulation really is, it becomes clear: It is completely insane to compare yourself to Instagram models in frustration. First, the body ideal celebrated there is staged completely arbitrarily as a supposed "role model" – and second, it simply does not exist in reality. In the video you can see how brazen the photo scam really is.

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Brigitte