These days the filters that make us show off perfect skin, a snub nose, big shiny eyes, long eyelashes, and beautiful lips are so common that it is increasingly strange to expose ourselves on social networks as we are. The pressure to be pretty is very strong for women, especially for famous women who are judged daily by their appearance and the way they look. Pimples, hair, wrinkles, thin mouths, and irregular noses are normal although they often make us think otherwise and force us to think that we have to hide behind a mask of makeup to hide who we are.
With this, we are not demonizing makeup, but here we prefer to see it as an expression of creativity and not a means to hide what we are. In that sense, an Instagram account called @ssstructure shows celebrities without a filter, breaking the idea of perfection that we have of them and showing that they are ordinary people who have flaws and bad days.
The purpose of showing these photos is for you to realize that not even famous people are safe from physical defects and the perfect images with which we are bombarded daily, both on social networks and in the media, are just an illusion. Here we present 26 unfiltered photos of celebrities where they look real:
Let’s get rid of the idea that the body and image of famous women have to be edited to fit stereotypes that will later serve to create even more trauma in women who are not public and see celebrities as a standard of beauty.
This story was originally published in Spanish in Cultura Colectiva.
