Bethenny Frankel Says "RHONY" Can Be Used for Good
Bethenny Frankel is utilizing Photoshop for good.
The Real Housewives of New York City alum shared two versions of the aforesaid Instagram photo, some of which showed her lasting connected the formation successful a bikini. The archetypal is flawless compared to the second, but that's lone due to the fact that Bethenny admitted to editing it to show social media's quality to warp our cognition of reality.
"This is NOT what I look like…and you cognize that bc I'm not vain and amusement you the existent me," she wrote Aug. 31. "But if I posted a mentation of this each time you mightiness commencement to judge that it mightiness be. This is conscionable however distorted this has each gotten."
"Filtering is lying: it is deceptive," Bethenny continued. "It makes women consciousness severely astir themselves. It makes young girls insecure and obsessed with an unattainable perfection. It makes mediate aged women and mothers consciousness insecure astir themselves. This creates a mendacious perfect for men."
The Skinnygirl founder added that excessive photograph editing is not lone "the other of inspirational," but besides "destructive" and "irresponsible."
"There is simply a enactment betwixt making an effort to look pretty," she concluded the post, "and an outright falsehood."
Bethenny's connection intelligibly resonated with many, arsenic the post's comments were filled with praise and support. Among those who agreed with her was Elisabeth Moss , who wrote, "You are the implicit coolest and astir atrocious ass and an inspiration to america all."
Read connected to spot further stars' champion body positive quotes.
Jonah Hill
In February 20201, the Wolf of Wall Street prima clapped backmost at paparazzi aft photos of himself surfing were published online. "I don't deliberation I ever took my garment disconnected successful a excavation until I was successful my mid 30s adjacent successful beforehand of household and friends," helium wrote. "Probably would person happened sooner if my puerility insecurities weren't exacerbated by years of nationalist mockery astir my assemblage by property and interviewers. So the thought that the media tries to play maine by stalking maine portion surfing and printing photos similar this and it can't signifier maine anymore is dope. I'm 37 and yet emotion and judge myself."
In August 2021, helium debuted a tattoo reading, "Body Love," which parodies the logo of h2o sports apparel institution Body Glove.
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Zendaya
In 2016, the star clapped backmost online aft being accused of being a "thinspo model" for "impressionable tweens."
"Do you find this funny? I volition constitute different paragraph to amended you aswell #youreallywannabenext?" she tweeted , aboriginal adding, "Now....everyone spell look successful the reflector astatine their beauteous body, and emotion that s--t #thickgirlswinning #skinnygirlswinning #weallwinning."
Also successful 2016, Zendaya called retired a magazine for photoshopping her, penning connected Instagram, "These are the things that marque women aforesaid conscious, that make the unrealistic ideals of quality that we have. Anyone who knows who I americium knows I basal for honorable and axenic aforesaid love. So I took it upon myself to merchandise the existent pic (right side) and I emotion it."
The prima aboriginal said this astir excessive photoshopping successful a New You interview: "There is nary specified happening arsenic ugly. That's a connection that doesn't truly participate my vocabulary. If there's immoderate explanation to being perfect, you're cleanable astatine being yourself . No different idiosyncratic tin beryllium you 100 percent; nary 1 has your fingerprint; nary 1 has your DNA. You are you 120 percent, done and through. Whether it is done my societal media oregon whatever, I privation anyone who looks up to maine to cognize that I spell done the aforesaid problems. I person to beryllium assured successful who I am."
Demi Lovato
"Stretch marks and other fat...And yet I inactive emotion myself," the singer, who battled bulimia for years, wrote connected Instagram successful 2018 . "Cellulite...and yet I inactive emotion myself."
Lovato aboriginal told E! News , "I was connected Instagram and I started comparing myself to these Instagram models and I conscionable thought to myself, idiosyncratic needs to amusement my fans and anybody that's looking astatine my relationship that what you spot isn't ever what's real. And so, I decided to clasp my flaws and—I don't adjacent similar to telephone them flaws, it's conscionable a portion of who I am—and amusement the satellite that I'm imperfect, but that's what makes maine beautiful."
In December 2020, she posted connected Instagram photos showing her agelong marks outlined with glitter.
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Lizzo
"When radical look astatine my assemblage and beryllium like, 'Oh my God, she's truthful brave,' it's like, 'No, I'm not.' I'm conscionable fine. I'm conscionable me. I'm conscionable sexy. If you saw Anne Hathaway successful a bikini connected a billboard, you wouldn't telephone her brave. I conscionable deliberation there's a treble modular erstwhile it comes to women....I don't similar it erstwhile radical deliberation it's hard for maine to spot myself arsenic beautiful . I don't similar it erstwhile radical are shocked that I'm doing it." -on being annoyed that radical are surprised by her confidence
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Kate Winslet
"As a child, I ne'er heard 1 pistillate accidental to me, 'I emotion my body.' Not my mother, my elder sister, my champion friend. No 1 pistillate has ever said, 'I americium truthful arrogant of my body.' I marque definite to accidental it to [my daughter] Mia, due to the fact that a affirmative carnal outlook has to commencement astatine an aboriginal age ."
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Mindy Kaling
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Jennifer Lawrence
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Serena Williams
"I emotion that I'm a afloat pistillate and I americium strong, and I'm powerful, and I'm beauteous astatine the aforesaid time. And there's thing incorrect similar that. It's truthful important to look astatine the positives; if I get caught up looking astatine the negatives, it tin truly bring you down . I don't person clip to beryllium brought down, I've got excessively galore things to do. I person Grand Slams to win, I person radical to inspire, and that's what I'm present for."
Gabourey Sidibe
"People ever inquire me, 'You person truthful overmuch confidence. Where did that travel from?' It came from me. One time I decided that I was beautiful , and truthful I carried retired my beingness arsenic if I was a beauteous girl. I deterioration colors that I truly like, I deterioration constitution that makes maine consciousness pretty, and it truly helps. It doesn't person thing to bash with however the satellite perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your assemblage is your temple, it's your home, and you indispensable decorate it."
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Lena Dunham
"I consciousness I've made it beauteous wide implicit the years that I don't springiness adjacent the tiniest of s--ts what anyone other feels astir my body. I've gone connected reddish carpets successful couture arsenic a size 14. I've done enactment scenes days aft surgery, mottled with scars. I've accepted that my assemblage is an ever changing organism, not a fixed entity—what goes up indispensable travel down and vice versa. I grin conscionable arsenic wide nary substance my existent size due to the fact that I'm arrogant of what this assemblage has seen and done and represented."
Chrissy Teigen
"I think, successful a way, we've forgotten what a regular assemblage looks like . There are radical retired determination who are struggling, and I'm struggling, and it's good to travel to presumption with realizing it's going to beryllium a spot of a journey. I'm not blind: I spot my body, I spot the quality successful shape, I spot that I gained weight. But I besides spot with those aforesaid eyes that I person a beauteous babe boy, and an astonishing small girl, and I americium precise happy."
Tess Holliday
"It's each astir accepting yourself the mode you are. If you privation to enactment towards a amended you successful immoderate regards…do it. But you're good conscionable the mode you are today ."
Isla Fisher
"I don't adjacent ain a scale. I person 2 young girls, and I wouldn't privation them to spot maine weighing myself each the time. I don't deliberation it sends the close message....For me, truthful overmuch astir beingness is acceptance. You tin look successful the reflector and find a cardinal things incorrect with yourself. Or you tin look successful the reflector and think, I consciousness good, I person my health, and I'm truthful blessed. That's the mode I take to look astatine it. I don't request to beryllium perfect. I'm doing conscionable fine ."
Cindy Crawford
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Amy Adams
"Being large yet helped maine recognize what my existent narration was with my body—meaning that it wasn't enactment connected this world to look bully successful a swimsuit . I was like, 'Look, I tin transportation a baby! I'm gaining value right, everything's going well.' And I've had that narration ever since."
Viola Davis
"You know, erstwhile I was handed Annalise Keating, I said, 'She's sexy, she's mysterious, you know?' I'm utilized to playing women who gotta summation 40 pounds and person to deterioration an apron. So I said, 'Oh God, I've got to suffer weight, I've got to larn however to locomotion similar Kerry Washington successful heels, you know, I've got to suffer my belly.' And past I asked myself, 'Well, wherefore bash I person to bash each that?' I genuinely judge that the privilege of a beingness is being who you are , and I conscionable precocious embraced that astatine 51. I deliberation my strongest powerfulness is that astatine 10 o'clock each Thursday night, I privation you to travel into my world. I americium not going to travel into yours. You travel into my satellite and you beryllium with me, my size, my hue, my age, and you sit, and you experience."
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Emma Stone
"No substance however things look from the outside, we tin each beryllium ace captious of ourselves and of our representation successful the mirror. I've seen articles oregon comments that person addressed my weight, oregon 'caving to unit to beryllium thin.' Keeping value connected is simply a conflict for me—especially erstwhile I'm nether stress, and particularly arsenic I've gotten older....I punctual myself to beryllium benignant to myself , and arsenic somewhat ridiculous arsenic it whitethorn sound, to dainty myself successful the aforesaid gentle mode I'd privation to dainty a girl of mine. It truly helps."
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Meryl Streep
"For young women, I would say, don't interest truthful overmuch astir your weight. Girls walk mode excessively overmuch clip reasoning astir that, and determination are amended things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you antithetic oregon weird, that's your strength . Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter benignant of mode and really the radical who look antithetic are the ones who get picked up. I utilized to hatred my nose. Now I don't. It's okay." -on the proposal she'd springiness aspiring actors
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Lady Gaga
"I heard my assemblage is simply a taxable of speech truthful I wanted to say, I'm arrogant of my assemblage and you should beryllium arrogant of yours too. No substance who you are oregon what you do. I could springiness you a cardinal reasons wherefore you don't request to cater to anyone oregon thing to succeed. Be you, and beryllium relentlessly you. That's the worldly of champions." -responding to chatter astir her Super Bowl appearance
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Camila Mendes
"When did being bladed go much important than being healthy? I precocious went to a naturopath for the archetypal clip successful my life. I told her astir my anxiousness astir nutrient and my obsession with dieting. She phrased a pivotal question successful specified a mode that struck a chord with me: what different things could you beryllium reasoning astir if you didn't walk each your clip reasoning astir your diet? I abruptly remembered each the activities I emotion that utilized to inhabit my time. At immoderate constituent successful my life, I allowed my obsession with being bladed to devour me, and I refused to marque country successful my caput for immoderate different concerns….I'm done believing successful the idea that there's a thinner, happier mentation of maine connected the different broadside of each the tireless effort. Your assemblage benignant is taxable to genetics, and portion eating nutrient-dense foods and exercising regularly volition marque you healthier, it volition not needfully marque you thinner."
Sam Smith
"In the past if I person ever done a photograph sprout with truthful overmuch arsenic a t-shirt on, I person starved myself for weeks successful beforehand and past picked and prodded astatine each representation and past usually taken the representation down. Yesterday I decided to combat the f--k back , reclaim my assemblage and halt trying to alteration this thorax and these hips and these curves that my mum and dada made and emotion truthful unconditionally. Some whitethorn instrumentality this arsenic narcissistic and showing disconnected but if you knew however overmuch courageousness it took to bash this and the assemblage trauma I person experienced arsenic a kid you wouldn't deliberation those things." -on boldly doffing his garment for a shoot
Ashley Graham
"I look astatine myself bare successful the reflector and say, 'You cognize what, awkward butt shape? You're not gonna get higher oregon rounder but it's OK, due to the fact that I've got Spanx for you.' Your words person truthful overmuch power . Every day, if you archer yourself 'I emotion you,' if you springiness yourself 1 connection of validation, it volition alteration your mind."
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