Fitness influencer demonstrates how ‘Instagram booty’ isn’t real
‘That’s not my real booty. And I’m okay with that.’
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Social media is full of digital personas that people have adopted in order to show off the best version of themselves to the rest of the internet.
A fitness influencer has posted a photo on her Instagram account addressing the “Instagram booty”; a stance that accentuates the shape of one’s backside in order to make it appear bigger than it actually is in real life.
Anna Victoria is a Californian personal trainer and founder of fitness programme Body Love with Anna Victoria. She currently has 1.3 million followers on Instagram.
She decided to highlight how deceptive the popular “Instagram booty” pose can be by posting two photos alongside one another, one described as an “Instagram booty” and the other a “real-life booty”.
Victoria has had her fair share of body insecurities in the past, which she explained in the caption.
“The one thing I was most insecure about growing up was my booty,” she wrote.
“I’ve always been smaller on bottom and I would try to wear long shirts to cover it.
“One thing I’ve loved about fitness is the ability to sculpt your body in various ways BUT there’s only so much muscle you can build on your butt AND you need to flex it to really show it off.
“A lot of the booty pics you see on Instagram are flexed, pushed out, back arched so much it actually hurts… plus high-waisted pants that accentuate a small waist and lift the booty too… there are so many ways to make it look 10 times bigger on Insta than in real life, and I do it too!!
“I love posing and admiring the ‘Instagram booty’ but that’s not my real booty. And I’m okay with that.”
In the past, Victoria has received many hurtful remarks about the size of her derrière and she’s worked very hard to boost her self-esteem.
“It may not look like what someone else would consider an ideal booty, but it’s mine!! Not theirs,” she wrote.
“And I’ve had to work hard to love it and to shape it and to love it so matter the shape or size.”
A number of women have commented on Victoria’s post expressing their admiration for her honesty.
“Ignore any haters. I’ve been the same and struggled big time to build a booty,” one person wrote.
Another said: “Seeing this and you loving yourself regardless of not having what everyone calls a dream booty, makes me rethink that I too can learn to love my body someday if I just put some hard work into it."
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