Essena O’Neill, an Australian of 18, was living the dream of many young teenagers.
Her more than half a million followers on the social network Instagram, where the photographs that showed her enviable lifestyle had thousands of “likes”.
Now O’Neill, in an emotional Internet video that has hung, has recognized that everything that was seen in those images was “a lie”.
On the tape the girl, who has been removed from your Instagram profile about 2,000 photographs “that had no other purpose than self-promotion, “complains tearfully ” harmful “ideal imposed on social networks
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“No quero support social networks with which I do not agree to make billions on advertising,” he says in the video.
“I have also spent hours watching perfect Girls internet, wishing them. When I became one of them, he was not happy, she was not satisfied and at peace with myself, “he said.
The truth behind the images
O’Neill has been devoted to rewrite some of the texts that accompanied their Instagram photos to reveal the reality that lay behind them.
Along with a picture in which she appeared with sportswear, described how 15 years in her daily routine was to “restrict calories” that consuming and make “excessive exercise”.
In another photo, which is seen in bikini, tells how she had to take several times to be satisfied with the result.
“stomach sucked, strategic pose, uploaded breasts. I want young girls to know that this is not a sincere life, cool or inspiring. Perfection is forced to receive care, “
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In another photo in which she is seen doing yoga says that “there is nothing Zen about trying to find seem to be zen.”
Samples Support
In a text published in October, O’Neill claimed that social networks “are not real”.
“It’s a system based on social approval, the ‘I like’, in the validation of views on the success in the number of followers system, “he wrote.
“Whatever addicted to fame of social networks like I was, is not aware of it,” he said.
O ‘ Neill also explained that clothing brands they paid thousands of dollars to show their clothes in his photographs, some of which, according to her, would never to go out.
Most O’Neill fans have supported his decision to rebel against the trends that impose social networks, thanking you have decided to fight to change things.
The young Australian has created the website Let’s be game changers (let’s be decisive), with which wants to promote the principles of veganism, mental, physical and spiritual health and preservation of the planet Earth.
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