Bethenny Frankel am using Photoshop for good.
The Real Housewives of New York City alum shared two versions of the same photo on Instagram, both showing her standing on the beach in a bikini. The first is perfect compared to the second, but that’s only because Bethenny admitted to editing it to show social media’s ability to distort our perception of reality.
“This is NOT what I look like… and you know I’m not fantasizing and showing you the real me,” she wrote on Aug. 31. “But what if I posted a version of this? every day, you can start to believe it could be. This is just the level of distortion all this has received.”
“Filtering is lying: it is deceiving,” Bethenny continued. “It makes women feel bad about themselves. It makes young girls insecure and obsessed with an unattainable perfection. It makes women and middle-aged mothers feel insecure. about themselves. This creates a false ideal for men.”
The Skinnygirl founder added that excessive photo editing is not only “the opposite of inspirational,” but “destructive” and “irresponsible.”
“There’s a fine line between the effort to look pretty,” she concluded the post, “and utter hypocrisy.”
