Model and host Chrissy Teigen opened up about her physical insecurities at a beauty festival.
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At the Beautycon Festival in Los Angeles, Teigen, who is of Norwegian and Thai descent, gave an honestly painful speech about how skewed beauty is with technology.
“My old ass will go on social media, and I will look at the Photoshopping, Facetuning, and the apps—and everything that goes into creating what is now a hit Instagram photo—and I feel insanely inadequate,” said the 31-year-old American, who is also popular for her funny and fearless personal tweets.
Photoshop and Facetune are photo-editing apps widely used by the media and celebrities themselves.
While she has appeared on magazine covers, she shared that she wasn’t exempt from feeling insecure, and has vented to her husband about it: “There have been times I’ve cried to John [Legend], where I felt like I would never have ‘that’ body.”
Image: Screen grab via Instagram/@chrissyteigen
“Everyone has a butt now and curves and a little waist and that’s not me…I’m jealous of those bodies and I want that, but I also feel like I really want to be cool with my body because of people like you guys,” she said.
She added: “That’s why I don’t post many makeup selfies, because I don’t feel anyone knows what a real face looks like anymore and it kills me that we have to completely wash a face or body out for it to get likes.”
Aside from photos and videos where she doesn’t wear makeup, the stunner is known to share imperfections like stretch marks on her Instagram feed to give her followers a more realistic perspective of women’s bodies.
Bruises from bumping kitchen drawer handles for a week. Stretchies say hi!
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At the convention, she mentioned that Victoria’s Secret models also have stretch marks and scars, and she wishes that there were more openness on body positivity.
The model is also a food lover, with her second cookbook in the works.
Still, she keeps her figure by having everything in moderation. “Listen, I love drinking. I love eating bad. But I think there’s a fine balance with everything.” Niña V. Guno /ra
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