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You are so much more than your selfie. Sophie Tweed Simmons is back to talk about the reality of the photos we see everyday on social media and how they can play into a negative sense of body image.

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00:00Sometimes I'll look at an image and be like,
00:01my teeth are looking a little yellow,
00:03and then I'm just like, I'ma fix that.
00:08See this?
00:09Not real.
00:11Facetune. Teeth whitened.
00:12Airbrushed.
00:13I had stubble.
00:14Lots of makeup, lots of hair.
00:15Lots of Facetune.
00:17Studies show that the more mainstream media
00:19women and young girls consume,
00:20the more unhappy we are with our bodies.
00:23Which is crazy.
00:24To make your boobs look good in a photo,
00:26you have to be a contortionist or an orangutan.
00:29And I'm not doing that.
00:30What you guys don't realize is that 99% of the images
00:34in your daily newsfeed are retouched or Facetuned
00:38or afterlighted or whatever other filters there are.
00:41I don't know, I lost track.
00:43Facetune?
00:44Okay, in defense of Facetune,
00:46sometimes I think it helps me express the way I'm feeling
00:50versus the way I was looking.
00:53Airbrushing.
00:54Number one, don't spend so much time lurking on social media.
00:58These images are unattainable.
01:00Stop it.
01:01Number two, they're unattainable.
01:03Stop it.
01:04They're retouched.
01:05They are not you.
01:06They're not even me.
01:07They're not even them.
01:09So stop looking.
01:10Everybody has a natural bend here, but I smoothed it.
01:13You can see the joyful laugh lines in my forehead,
01:17but I attempted to airbrush them out.
01:21Sometimes when I look at those images on Instagram,
01:23I forget that they're not real
01:25and it makes me feel a whole lot worse about myself.
01:29So ladies, let's not spend so much time looking through
01:32Instagram and Twitter and comparing ourselves.
01:34Let's put our phones down, look in the mirror, and love ourselves.
01:38Let's go!
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