Instagram can be a great place to share photos and feel part of a community, but it can also be a world filled with inauthenticity. With personal photographers, photo editing applications, makeup, and trendy clothing, many influencers create a false sense of perfection. Because guess what? Perfect just doesn't exist!
These influencers prove that you can be yourself and still shine.
Many Instagrammers want to show flawless skin and perfect makeup on the platform, but Kali (@myfacestory) dedicates her Instagram to documenting her days with acne.
She is not shy to show the ups and downs of "good" acne days and "bad" ones.
Many people have freckles, but Salem (@salemmitchell) was unfortunately bullied for having them.
She's now a model and totally deserves to massively clapback at her haters like she did on Twitter.
Thanks to models like Salem, people now want to have freckles, often drawing them on.
Kellie (@hairlossboss) is an Instagrammer from Australia who has androgenetic alopecia, or female-pattern baldness.
She uses her platform to bring awareness to the condition and normalize it. She wears toppers and wigs, not necessarily to cover her hair, but to boost her confidence and self-esteem and to destigmatize wearing them.
At this point, Winnie Harlow (@winnieharlow) is a household name. She is a well-known model with the skin condition vitiligo.
While she is outspoken about her experience with the condition, she's sure to not let it define who she is.
Megan (@bodyposipanda) is a major name in the #bopo world. Her Instagram is dedicated to her recovery from anorexia and the realities of how she navigates her new body to inspire others.
Lauren (@laurenneate) is a fitness blogger who has alopecia universalis, which is an autoimmune disease that attacks hair follicles.
Lauren can totally rock hair or no hair — she flawlessly shows that hair is simply an accessory!
Evita (@evita_delmundo) is a model from Malaysia who is covered in moles. She shows us how to truly love ourselves and embrace our uniqueness.
With over 100K Instagram followers, she sure is showing her past bullies who's queen of the playground!
No one is made the same, and that's beautiful in and of itself!
Karina (@karinairby) is not shy in the least to confidently show her eczema and cellulite.
She captioned a post, "I see my eczema as some sort of superpower!" That should hype us all up.
