An Instagram fitness star has posted a series of edited photos to show how body ideals have changed through the decades.
Sia Cooper hopes the posts to her 1.1 million followers will show how the ‘ideal body’ simply doesn’t exist.
At the beginning of the post, Sia writes, ‘TRIGGER WARNING: If I had the perfect body through the decades, this is how I would look.’
The personal trainer has uploaded six separate images, where she’s edited her figure to show the ‘body trends’ of different decades.
The photo series starts with the Roaring 20s, which Sia describes as being ‘all about boyish.’ In the post, she writes, ‘Women even opted for short hair. Boobs and waists didn’t matter and women felt liberated as they were.’
Next up is the Hollywood Era – aka the 1950s – where Marilyn Monroe-like curves dominated. In the photo she’s edited her body to exaggerate her boobs, bum and thighs, whilst leaving a small waist.
Sia writes, ‘They didn’t care about weight, but a slimmer waist was ideal. Playboy was also introduced in this era’.
Following that is the Swinging 60s and 70s. Sia characterises body ideals in this era as ‘thin’ women with ‘long, slim legs’ and ‘small breasts’.
She adds, ‘This was the area of the “twig” body style thanks to famous model Twiggy. Women wanted a thin and girly, adolescent appearance.’
The next photo in the series showcases the supermodel era of the 1980s.
Sia says, ‘Catwalks and supermodels became the it thing. Think Naomi Campbell abs Cindy Crawford. Lean and tall legs and an athletic body type were ideal. This was also when fitness started hitting big.’
The 1990s is the next image, where the fitness star edits her body to look ‘waifish’, ‘androgenous’ and ‘extremely thin’.
She writes, ‘The waif look took over once Kate Moss took the world by storm. This gaunt malnourished look was the thing as well as appearing androgynous-neither female or male.’
The final photo in Sia’s series showcases what beauty standards are like in today’s society – something she calls ‘postmodern beauty.’
She says that ‘big boobs and butts and flat tummies are on the rise’ and that women are turning to plastic surgery to achieve certain looks.
Sia hopes her Instagram posts will show people that trying to achieve ‘perfection’ is damaging because it’s incredibly fickle, so doesn’t actually exist.
At the end of her Instagram post, she sums it up perfectly, ‘It’s no wonder why we are all so obsessed and screwed up with our self appearances. We’ve let society tell us how to look for YEARS-it’s nothing new.’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/21/instagram-star-photoshops-pics-show-body-ideals-changed-decades-12279753/
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