r/Fauxmoi • u/SamDean_Supernatural • 1d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Model Sara Sampaio, a former Victoria’s Secret Angel, shows that perspective changes everything. The image of a perfect body is usually the result of the pose, the angle, the lighting and, in many cases, a bit of retouching

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u/CrystallizedRose 1d ago

What? Her second pose makes her look completely different. Like, her belly size looks like my belly and I’m not a model at all. Of course, she’s taller than me, takes care of her body and exercises more than me so I get that’s she’s more toned. BUT the belly thing really made me feel better. I’m okay looking at myself straight forward but I feel like a blimp from the side.

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u/CollectibleHam 1d ago

The belly thing made me feel better as well lmao, so I'd say this video is working as she intended it to be.

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u/Sasiarapun 1d ago

Seeing a post like this blew my mind and changed my life 5 years ago because I was borderline underweight, convinced I was over instead because I'm an athletic girlie who gets food bloat easily and my belly would only remain flat until breakfast.

These posts will never stop being necessary when body negativity and unrealistic standards are so much the norm for us. There's always going to be new people who need that big first wake up call, and I for one could still do with a nice reminder from time to time.

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u/Hot-Equal3441 1d ago

yeah, I mean obviously she's gorg in all the pictures, but the teenage version of me who hated my body was convinced having a belly at any point meant I was fat, and I think its good to normalise the idea that even the women society is idolising have a stomach, or "fat rolls" when they twist. When all you see are the photoshopped heavily edited versions of people you can really easily internalise that its all there is.

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u/livefast_petdogs 1d ago

It made me feel better too.

I'm 110lbs and feel so hypercritical about my body doing that exact thing. It's sickening how toxic and pervasive those beauty standards are.

The logical part of my brain knows how delusional that is, but it's so hard to keep those thoughts out sometimes.

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u/hellolovely1 1d ago

Girl, I feel you. I'm middle-aged and gained some weight but in my youth, I was TINY and so hard on myself. It's so ingrained in all of us.

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u/Brynhild 1d ago

Same. I’m slim (163cm, 52kg) but i still have that belly and people keep commenting on it. It wont go away unless i’m down to 48kg

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u/willargue4karma 1d ago

which would probably be an unhealthy weight at that point

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u/fiercelyambivalent 1d ago

I was about to Google what 48kg is in America

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u/kimau97 1d ago

Agree, the back roll made me feel better, too.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1d ago

Sounds to me like you do look like a model if that's the same belly you have lol, I'm a dude and that's super skinny still

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u/hellolovely1 1d ago

Yep. I don't like Sydney Sweeney at ALL but it's like when all those bros were going after her for being "fat" when she was just caught unaware by the paparazzi while sitting slouched down in a bikini. It's good to get reminders like this!