{"id":129750,"date":"2023-09-09T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irideat.com\/?p=129750"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:00:08","slug":"fitness-star-shows-reality-behind-glam-bikini-snap-by-changing-pose-and-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irideat.com\/lifestyle\/fitness-star-shows-reality-behind-glam-bikini-snap-by-changing-pose-and-angle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness star shows reality behind glam bikini snap by changing pose and angle"},"content":{"rendered":"
Social media isn\u2019t an accurate representation of everyday life.<\/p>\n
So fitness coach Molly Ava wants women to stop comparing themselves to influencers they see online.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, from Bournemouth, showed the \u201creality\u201d behind one of her glamorous pictures to prove this point.<\/p>\n
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She took two snaps in a green bikini, posing up a storm in the first and adopting a more natural grin in the second.<\/p>\n
Molly left the natural creases of her body on show in the unposed image \u2013 and while she still looks amazing, it gave a much more realistic look at what real bodies are like.<\/p>\n
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The body positive babe captioned the post: \u201cStop beating yourself up for not having the \u2018bikini body\u2019 you see other have online.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy? Because the likelihood is, they don\u2019t have it either.<\/p>\n
\u201cA quick change of pose and angle and my body can look so drastically different but they are BOTH me, BOTH beautiful and BOTH worthy of my love and acceptance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent my teenage years saving pictures of women with defined cores to my phone and doing crazy workouts that I thought would get me the body on the left without realising it could also still be the body on the right, because I only ever saw the 1%.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo let this be your reminder, that the highlight you see, the 1% is simply that, a tiny snapshot, of a normal, moving, beautiful, body.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeep on loving yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Molly's post garnered 16,900 likes and plenty of positive comments.<\/p>\n
One responder wrote: "These posts mean so much to me. Thank you for the reminders, honesty and reality check!"<\/p>\n
Another said: "Real bod for the win. Gorgeous."<\/p>\n
And a third added: "Love this! Comparison steals all joy."<\/p>\n
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