Body image and online influence
I saw a comment from a young girl on a popular post that said: “it’s hard seeing everyone have this shape. Making it feel like if you don’t, you have nothing to offer.” My heart sank when I read it. It's our uniqueness that makes us beautiful, but the desire to look like this one model of “beauty” (which will change in ten years time, as it always does) is taking diversity of features away. This is nothing new. Across history, bodies have had "trends" (which in itself is weir