Our bodies tend to be at least a little larger or smaller IRL than they typically appear on Instagram.Įven if no Photoshopping (sans minor lighting edits) is involved, photographs (including the photographs we're seeing in the fashion-sphere) can be very easily manipulated. But oftentimes, I'll finally meet someone in person - be it a blogger I've followed for years or a mainstream plus size model - and we'll both be taken aback by how different we each look in the flesh. I spend a lot of my time on the internet, where I was first introduced to body- and fat-positive movements and the many inspirational people who work in different facets of them.
