I feel really sorry for her, I guess being in the pageant and instagram influencer environment where the sole focus is on your looks is not very good for anyone's mental state. I worry about young girls exposed to this mindset, I think it is actually getting worse rather than better. I'm in my mid 20s now, and was a teenager at the start of social media, the pictures I and my friends used to post were not filtered and edited and posed to perfection. I still feel the pressure to look good sometimes but I don't photoshop my pics and just try to feel comfortable in who I am. However I don't think the pressure to look perfect weighs as heavily on me as it does on girls just one or two years younger who have been exposed to this "insta perfect" idea for longer than me. And because everyone seems to edit and filter their pics so much it's actually hard to realise that it is totally normal for even very slim women to have stretch marks, cellulite, spots etc. Nobody, even the most famous models in the world have a perfect body, the pics you see in magazines are just photoshopped. We all have our little flaws and we shouldn't have to spend so much of our time and money fixing them or thinking about them. It's just so so sad. All that matters is whether you are healthy.
Yes it's nice to look nice, but that's only one small part of you. Looks fade with time for even the most beautiful in the world. She really should be trying to enjoy motherhood and her beautiful little boy as he is growing up without having to worry about how she looks. She is also recovering from major surgery! Although c sections are so common, people really do forget that it's a big operation! Totally normal to take a while to recover and there should be no rush. We also forget because medical advances are so good that childbirth is actually one of the riskiest things a woman can do, so many women and babies died in the past and still sometimes do today. Mother and baby being healthy and happy is the most important thing, not how you look.
You couldn’t have worded this better. I’m prob gonna go off on a tangent here but I’m late twenties and find Insta sooo toxic nowadays. Gone are the days where you could post a bunch of random pictures and get 5 likes and then get on with your day. I even feel paranoid when I upload a picture now and check my flaws in the pic, its utter madness so I’ve decided to deactivate. Twitter was the go-to social networking site when I was growing up which allowed you to project your personality a bit and we rarely ever posted selfies / perfectly posed pics. Facetune wasn’t a thing then. I find it really sad and I do worry about teenagers and the younger generation growing up in todays society, there will be no incentive to get good grades and a decent job when you can earn tit load of money looking pretty on Insta. Surely it can’t get any worse than it is now??