Kyla La Grange just posted this picture on Facebook.
Interesting, huh? Well, she also posted the following caption:
‘This photo is from the first live review I got in a national newspaper. When it came out I remember feeling horrified because I hated the photo, and it was printed up big in the paper and put online. But my friends made me laugh about it and I realised it really didn’t and doesn’t matter.
Recently a couple of my friends have been going through a very tough time with body image and negative feelings about how they look, and I wanted to post this because I think a lot of social media accounts, mine included, just present a filtered ‘perfect’ view of a version of a life that makes everything look pretty and everyone look beautiful. I know a lot of you who follow this page are in your teens and just finding your feet and working out who you are, and I remember so much how that feels, so I wanted to mention this, especially seeing as it’s London Fashion Week.
I saw a while back that Lorde posted a picture of herself with acne cream on and I thought that was awesome. How you look is such a tiny part of who you are; the stuff to prioritise is how you treat other people and how you feel inside.
As it turns out, I often make this face when I play guitar. I often get a few chins when i look down. So do a lot of people. Embrace the chins! I’ll probably get more of them at some point, as well as some wrinkles, and that’s absolutely nothing to worry about. I don’t think it’s wrong for people to post nice pictures of themselves on social media – we all like to look our best and musicians, for example, are usually trying to create a particular world around their music. But I wanted to post this coz I feel like sometimes it’s good to just step outside of all that and say ‘Hi, this is also me.’ Hope you all have a great week and sorry this is such a long post. xxx’
Fantastic.