Once upon a time, I quite admired people who had slim bodies, and the photos they posted online were so great. I liked that they did not have a large hip bone and their line from waist to thigh was so smooth and beautiful. I began to do some exercise following the online videos, but soon I found that I could not change like them because it is a part of the hard bone in my body, instead of fat and muscle. At that time, I just felt tired of struggling on my large hip bone, and I decided to give up. It was a compromise, but I think it would be the best way for me to relieve myself. And at that moment, I realized it is not everybody growing in the exact same way. Some people's bodies grow naturally in a slim type, the others might not.
Recently, I watched a video called "this is why your BODY will never look like an influencer (hint: they don't look like this either)" by a YouTuber named Stephanie Lange. As the title shows, she is already given the answer for us, which the influencers do not have the body as perfect as the online photos they post. She throws out an argument that influencers also look like normal people, and people do not need to chase for the perfect beautiful standards.
In the video, she gives multiple examples and shows some methods used to help take 'perfect photos', which the lighting and editing would be the two most common ways. I absolutely agree with her. Being an influencer on social media, he/she posts beautiful photos and gains a large number of followers, which forms a trend for fashion and beautiful standards. It is inevitable to spread a style of fashion since influencers are charismatic and have great influence on normal people. S
tephanie Lange shows two Instagram accounts presenting the celebrities in the photos after trimming and in the ones captured naturally by people, aiming to support her views, which can be seen difference, but both sides are good. It is a normal situation, I believe, since people - even beautiful celebrities - cannot always keep the most perfect status like being in the trimming photos. However, the beautiful photos make some people chase the perfect body in real life. Actually, on the way to pursue the desired perfect body, some people lose their balance and affect their health, which reminds me of the girdle suits in the Victorian Era in Europe. I have watched some TV series in an old European background, and honestly I think it looks good when women are dressed in girdles. Stanphanie Lange also mentions the Victorian girdles in her video.
During the Victorian Era, women wore girdles in order to slim their waists, which was a trend at that time. However, the report by current scientists suggests wearing girdling is harmful to our bodies. In order to slim the waist, the girdling is pressing on the waist skin, which also presses on the organs inside the body. In this way, the organs inside will go up or go down, leaving the positions they are originally in. Being worse, if the girdling presses too tight, ribs will be broken, and people even die. In current time, wearing girdles is not a reasonable method to slim our waists. The health scientist suggests not to wear girdles considering health and there are not a lot of people wearing girdles right now, which presents the trend changes by the centuries. Going through the thousands of years history - at least, we can tell that the trend always changes. People cannot pursue the trend all the time.
Aesthetics is not only one standard. By surfing online, we can see a lot of beautiful celebrities who are not in the same style. For example, curvy Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande who is in a petite type. They are both influenced artists with millions of followers, but they show different styles of beauty. Overall, health is the most important thing in our life. We can exercise and get fit in a rational and healthy way, but we do not have to follow the single trend. Aesthetics is not unitary; it is made up of different styles, and every one has her/his own beauty. We can admire the perfect body, but if we cannot approach like that in fact, we do not need to torture ourselves--since pursuing the beautiful standard is not so important as health.
