Women of Western: You are more than your body

body shaming of beautiful celebrities Instagram-famous 18-year-old striving for social media validation

My first ever Instagram photo. I remember I obsessively checked the like count for a full week since uploading it. It got like 5 likes. This was when I was so hungry for social media validation. This was 172 weeks ago from now - now marks the day I quit all social media and focus on real life projects. 27/10/15

A photo posted by Social Media Is Not Real Life (@essenaoneill) on Jul 6, 2012 at 12:19am PDT

NOT REAL LIFE - took over 100 in similar poses trying to make my stomach look good. Would have hardly eaten that day. Would have yelled at my little sister to keep taking them until I was somewhat proud of this. Yep so totally #goals A photo posted by Social Media Is Not Real Life (@essenaoneill) on May 10, 2014 at 12:59am PDT

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